Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. As May is Mental Health Awareness Month,

we're talking about understanding mental health and where you can find support.

Many of this month's episodes are in response to questions about mental health

from our private Facebook group and email.

And here's our second question for the month.

How can you sum up the And here's our second question for the month.

How can you sum up the motivation to help yourself

or practice self-care when you're so low or anxious

that you just don't feel like doing anything.

What are the first steps that you can take to talk yourself

into doing them?

And this question addresses a big challenge with anxiety and the exhaustion and loss of hope or motivation that comes with it.

And I know that you felt that way before and I know that I have too and I'm grateful for the question

and that we can discuss it today.

Yeah, another really important question I think to explore because it's so difficult

when we feel exhausted by anxiety and only we can do it and it's

really challenging when we have to somehow take that first step and we feel so anxious and so tired.

So I think the first thing that really helps is trying to gain some clarity and sit down quietly perhaps with a pen and a piece of paper and ask

yourself what exactly is causing the lack of motivation because it's not the same for everyone and I found that getting

clear on what's going on really helps with the next steps to take.

And some of those questions might be,

am I feeling this way because I'm exhausted?

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