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In this week's podcast, we're talking about how to protect yourself from being swept away by the fear of anxiety.

Welcome back, Ananga.

Hey Shen.

It's good to be with you again this week and I'm grateful that we're speaking about this.

I just had an experience that I think relates beautifully to being scared of anxiety or scared of the anxiety that comes up in us.

Oh my goodness.

So I started having a toothache and I immediately went into story about the last time I had a

toothache and everything that came after that right?

Yeah.

Then my mind took over and then I started to worry about whether or not I was going to have

anxiety at the dentist because I had to go to the dentist and I didn't want to go back and

remembering how I responded to the epinephrine that they have and when they numb you.

And anyway, just, oh, I went right down the rabbit hole of all this stuff and so I can completely relate

with being scared of having anxiety pop up. The good news is it didn't. So there was anxiety that came up because I was

thinking about the anxiety that was going to come up. But I managed to do the things that I know to do. I managed to just remind myself not to go into story and remind myself not to believe what I was thinking that just because this was happening

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