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 Vanderleke here with my good friend and Slayer's sister Ananga Severe. We come together weekly

on Skype to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from

our inbox and Facebook page. We have a powerful collection of techniques to reduce

anxiety and have been coming together for this podcast for almost six years and

we're so happy that you're here to join us and today we're going to be covering how being

kind to yourself can help your anxiety. It's so good to be together with you again today to talk about a really important subject and that

is being kind to ourselves and compassionate self-care. Let's talk more about how that kindness

can help quell our anxiety.

I think it's really important when we're living with anxiety to separate ourselves

from the experience of anxiety and to understand that although we have anxiety and anxiety is affecting you

but it isn't you it isn't your identity you are so much bigger and better and different to your anxiety.

Anxiety is really hard on our nerves, it's rough, it's grating, so if we can do whatever we can

to counteract those rough experiences and anxiety with

self-kindness it can really make a big difference to how we experience our life

you know day-to-day and and the bigger picture of life just working on practicing being soft with

yourself taking your time resting when you need to being patient and one thing

that really helped me with this many years ago when I was

suffering badly with anxiety was to start making friends with myself to take the time

out to get to know myself better. So a few questions for you to think

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