How to care for yourself when you’re anxious and have no motivation

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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#590: As May is mental health awareness month, we’re going to be talking about understanding mental health and where to find support. Many of this month’s episodes are in response to questions about mental health from our private Facebook group. Here’s our second question: “How to summon up the motivation to help yourself, or practice self-care when you are so low or anxious you don’t feel like doing anything. What the best first steps might be and how to talk yourself into doing them.” Today’s Anxiety Slayer podcast is sponsored by Betterhelp BetterHelp wants to remind you that you matter just as much as everyone else does, and therapy is a great way to make sure you show up for yourself. BetterHelp is online therapy that offers video, phone and even live chat sessions with your therapist, so you don’t have to see anyone on camera if you don’t want to. It’s much more affordable than in-person therapy and you can be matched with a therapist in under 48 hours. Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Special offer for Anxiety Slayer listeners, get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/slayer

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. As May is Mental Health Awareness Month,
0:18.0	we're talking about understanding mental health and where you can find support.
0:22.0	Many of this month's episodes are in response to questions about mental health
0:26.0	from our private Facebook group and email.
0:30.0	And here's our second question for the month.
0:32.0	How can you sum up the And here's our second question for the month.
0:33.6	How can you sum up the motivation to help yourself
0:37.0	or practice self-care when you're so low or anxious
0:41.5	that you just don't feel like doing anything.
0:43.2	What are the first steps that you can take to talk yourself
0:48.8	into doing them?
0:50.1	And this question addresses a big challenge with anxiety and the exhaustion and loss of hope or motivation that comes with it.
1:00.0	And I know that you felt that way before and I know that I have too and I'm grateful for the question
1:05.2	and that we can discuss it today.
1:07.4	Yeah, another really important question I think to explore because it's so difficult
1:12.2	when we feel exhausted by anxiety and only we can do it and it's
1:18.4	really challenging when we have to somehow take that first step and we feel so anxious and so tired.
1:26.0	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
1:37.4	yourself what exactly is causing the lack of motivation because it's not the same for everyone and I found that getting
1:44.7	clear on what's going on really helps with the next steps to take.
1:52.0	And some of those questions might be,
1:55.0	am I feeling this way because I'm exhausted?
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