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 Vanderleak here with my friend and anxiety Slayerayer partner, Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and love answering

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Ananga and I are armed with a powerful collection of techniques

to help you reduce anxiety.

And we love to share a potent blend of storytelling,

Iurveda, yoga, guided relaxations, as well as the many digital products

that we've created to help you overcome anxiety and work with your own personal suffering.

Today we're discussing the therapeutic nature of

journaling through difficult times

which was inspired by this question from our inbox.

I have listened to your podcast on changing

and overcoming negative thoughts a few times now. You mentioned journaling as a

good tool. Do you have any suggestions on what to write in the journal?

Hey Ananga, I thought that was a great question and welcome and wonderful to be with you again today.

Hi Shan, it really is a good question. We've touched on journaling several times in the past and I know it's something you and I both have used and found beneficial.

I think for me one of the revelations with it was one day when I was really suffering with great anxiety and I just

bought a cheap pad and sat down in a coffee shop and just I just really felt the need to get everything out of my head onto the page so I just

felt the need to get everything out of my head onto the page so I just scribbled away and

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