Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and

tranquility in your life through anxiety release exercises and supportive

tools created to slay your anxiety.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan van der Leek here with my friend and partner Ananga Severe. And we come together weekly on Skype to share

anxiety slayer sessions with you and often answer listener questions from our inbox and

Facebook page.

And together, Anaga and I are armed with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

We love to mix up a potent blend of storytelling, yoga, guided relaxations, EFT tapping, coaching

along with our many, many years of personal experience.

And today we have a listener question that really struck both of us as important to share with you

and to answer because this is something both Ananga and I have dealt with as well.

And it goes like this.

Hi Shannon Ananga.

I'm wondering if you have any plans to cover health anxiety.

I find concerns about health are a big trigger for my anxiety.

I can now usually predict if I'm going to have an anxiety flare up by how often I've been worrying about

getting cancer or some other debilitating illness or mental illnesses.

A common worry for me is that my anxiety is actually a sign of bipolar

disorder or that I'm having a breakdown or or or. Of course this makes me even more anxious and feeds the dreaded vicious circle of symptoms.

Once I'm calm again, I can think clearly and see the anxiety for what it is. For example anxiety and not something I need to be

sectioned for, but in the midst of adrenaline-fueled thought patterns it can be hard to

think straight.

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