Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast.

I'm Shan Banderleek here with my wonderful friend and co-host, Ananga Sivier.

We come together weekly from Kent and Lelandau to share Anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page. Together we share a powerful collection of

techniques to reduce anxiety. And today we're going to be discussing how you can stop

an anxiety attack. Hi Ananga. Hey, Shan. Always good to be with you to record another episode of

Anxiety Slair. Let's dive right in. The thing with anxiety is it lies to us and the anxious mind

will tell us nothing works. You're stuck with anxiety attacks and it's always going to be this way.

And sometimes we're using so much energy, just coping with anxiety, just getting through the day with it,

that it really feels completely overwhelming to try and tackle it, to know where to begin, to take action.

But that's really what it takes to overcome anxiety attacks.

The very first step is believing that it is possible. It's completely possible to stop an

anxiety attack. And to stop subsequent attacks, it's possible to reclaim your life from this

anxiety, just rearing up and

firing off apparently randomly in your mind and body. And the first step to do that is to take

action, to just take the ball by the halls and believe it is possible.

And we've had so many success stories over the years from people who have followed some of our suggestions.

And almost like, you know, I can't believe it.

Even in a Facebook group recently, we had somebody come on and say how great they felt because they were able to stop and attack in its tracks by doing some deep breathing and by tapping.

And I was so grateful that they shared, you know, because often we hear about what's wrong and what's bothering us and what can we do and to have people come forward and

remind us that yes this does work we know it works which is why we recommend it but yeah we've

had so many success stories really important isn't it to have that peer support when somebody in

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