Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your anxiety.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan van der Leak here today with Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share

anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from our inbox and

Facebook page. We love to share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

We are celebrating six years in partnership, over 250 episodes, and more than 2.5 million listens to our podcast we could not be happier.

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midnight on December 31st.

Welcome, Ananga, it's so wonderful to come back together with you and this week to discuss

how we became anxiety slayers and how our listeners can join us in doing the same.

Yeah, I thought it might be nice to share some of our journey through anxiety, some of our experiences

with anxieties, just to share with our listeners that we've been there too.

I know very well how horrible anxiety feels, used to suffer with it very strongly in my youth. So perhaps just to share a bit of our

journey and what you can do to help yourself, how we've overcome anxiety and how we'd

like to help you do the same. When I think about the beginning of my understanding of anxiety and the realization that I was suffering,

it would always come back to social anxiety.

So for me that's what I struggled with and still do on occasion,

but feel like I have so many more resources and tools available that I do pretty well.

But on occasion, this time of year, the holiday time can be a little bit more of a struggle.

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