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 Slayer's sister Ananga Severe.

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 we are armed

with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety. Today we'll be

answering a listener question from our inbox. I have been having a very unsettled mind as of late with

anxiety creeping back in. I've recently started dating someone and he makes me so happy,

but at the same time I can't stop these unreasonable

worries my past relationship was a domestically abusive one for many years

where my anxiety and panic attacks actually started from so I feel that this is playing a big

influence in my present situation since this is the first time I've been able to feel emotions

toward a significant other.

Do you have any tips or podcasts you can point to

that will help me accept the past and to not

let the past inhibit the present moment of happiness and to calm those train wrecks of thoughts that start going.

I thought this was an excellent question for us to discuss today Ananga and I think you probably have some ideas on how to help her.

Yeah, I think first of all this is to be expected when we've had past bad experiences.

It's difficult to relax into a new situation and it can be difficult to see the person in that relationship

as an individual separate from that past because the relationship is something that caused you

suffering before the person isn't but the two get mixed up in the mind and it's very much

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