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The Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleek, here today with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Sivier.

Welcome back Ananga.

Hey, Shen.

Today, we're responding to a question from one of our listeners.

Can the weather make my anxiety worse?

We'll also be talking about the season that's most challenging for anxiety and how to care for yourself so you can pass through it peacefully with as much ease and grace

as possible. I know you have a story to share about food and how this kind of ties into our

conversation today and especially salads. The salad story. Yeah, this is something we heard from a listener some years ago now

who wrote in to ask us, can salad to make my anxiety worse? She noticed if she was eating salad

for a few days in a row, her anxiety definitely increased. And the answer is yes. And I love that question coming in because so

often we feel like, what now? What's making me anxious now? You know, can it really be the weather?

We get a lot of traffic come to our website asking the question, can the weather make my anxiety worse?

Because it's something

people are asking because they're experiencing it. And of course, when we're living with others

and we have other friends that don't necessarily understand the experience of anxiety, it can

just feel like another thing that can come back not empathetically. You know, oh, it's the weather now, it's your salad

now, but Ayurveda, India's ancient science of life gives incredible insight into the fact that

this is true and why it's true and what we can do about it to help ourselves feel more balanced,

more grounded and more calm.

The clue from salad is that it contains the qualities of the vata dosha, the vata type.

Ira Veda teaches that like increases like and opposites balance.

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