Happy New Year and welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderle, here with my good friend and co-host in Angasivir. This week we're discussing New Year's resolutions and

how they can cause additional stress and anxiety and what we recommend that

you do instead. Happy New Year, Ananga.

Hey Sean, happy new year.

I missed you over the last couple of weeks and at the same time it was good for us both to

take a break and spend time with their families and relax.

Yeah, both. I missed you too and it was nice to be with family and I spent a lot of time as we were just talking about but we

started recording this week's show journaling and reflecting and it's been a

good quiet couple of weeks.

And this is the time of year when we hear so much about

what's next? What are your intentions? What are your resolutions? What are you going to change? What's going to happen? I'm just saying it out loud makes me feel a little agitated.

As of January 1st, I'm going to no longer do X, Y, and Z, and I'm going to change everything.

And as we address this topic many times over the last 13 years.

It's always important to bring it forward again because in my opinion,

and I know in your opinion, now isn't really the time for making big changes.

It's a perfect time to set some intentions for yourself to do what you've done,

Ananga, and looking at your world and the way that it is and what you might

like to see unfold in a bigger picture way, but not in a way where we're jumping right in and holding ourselves to these really

strict rules that, let's face it, are often abandoned by February anyway.

Yeah, in the northern hemisphere we're in the darkest and most lethargic time of the year,

although I'm happy to know outside my window as we're recording this, it's 20 to 5.

And I can see a little bit more light when a couple of weeks ago.

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