Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Bander Vanderlich here with my wonderful friend and

co-host Ananga Civier. We come together weekly from Kent and Lelandaw 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, patient.

Always good to be with you to record another episode of Anxiety Slayer.

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, but 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 you would like, you know, I can't believe it even in a Facebook group

recently we had somebody come out and say how great they felt because they were

able to stop an 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,

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