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 the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my friend and partner Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype and have been for the last five years

to share anxiety slayer sessions with you

and answer listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

And together we're armed with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

We often mix up a potent blend of coaching, storytelling, all your beta, yoga, guided relaxations, and EFT tapping,

along with our many, many years of personal experience.

And today we're addressing a question from our listener inbox. I had my first

anxiety attack a month ago. I've been suddenly feeling heat in my body and sometimes I actually

start sweating. I feel shaky and my

chest feels tight, my mind races and I feel really scared. I've started listening to

your podcast but would appreciate your advice as well. I read that question and

my heart goes out so much because an anxiety attack for the first time is a pretty frightening experience.

Yeah, it's terrifying.

I'm sorry you had to go through that and I very much hope that we can help you.

I remember having panic attacks in my teenage years where I would break out into such a sweat.

It was unbelievable and immediately you think everyone notices, everyone can see you, and I would shake and my clothes would be wet it was horrific and the more

I thought about it the worse it got so I really can relate to those horrible feelings.

Unfortunately, what tends to happen is that our mind gets really freaked out by it

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