Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my

wonderful friend and co-host in Angasivir. We come together weekly from Kent

and Leilenaw to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page along with our private Facebook group.

Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

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forward slash anxiety Slayer.

This week we're talking about how to calm the anxiety

many of us are facing and returning to work or stepping back into the world after

the lockdown. And while some are eager to get back to work in a sense of normalcy and structure, many have enjoyed the quiet time, including us, and more time with family and sometimes that's tough to leave behind.

Anxiety about getting sick or... that's tough to leave behind.

Anxiety about getting sick or bringing illness home to loved ones.

All kinds of things are showing up and there's a lot to consider and to be cautious about now.

We find that it's helpful to examine our personal concerns and then focus on

supporting those as they come up.

And you know, before we dive in even deeper, I just got back from a weekend away with my family and it's the first time we've done

anything since COVID-19 popped up and we went to a very, very safe place as far as the numbers are concerned.

Not very populated. We went up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. not very more over the weekend than we have in several months as far as going out and being in a hotel room and being at a restaurant and those kinds of things.

And it was a lovely experience,

but it was also a bit exhausting,

...