Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan van der Leake here with my wonderful friend and co-host

Ananga Severe. We come together weekly from Kent and Leelenaw to share

anxiety slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from our

inbox and Facebook page along with our private group. Together we share a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety.

And today we're discussing how to manage anxiety when facing a serious medical test,

like a biopsy or blood test and how to support yourself getting through the test and while waiting for the results.

Hello Ananga?

Hey Shen.

Well, here we are talking about something that we both know.

Yeah.

And both have dealt with quite a bit in the short term over these last few years.

Yeah.

And anxiety is absolutely part of the medical testing process

for everyone for us as well.

And today we're going to talk about how to learn to care for yourself

before, during, and after a serious medical test.

Yeah, this has been coming up a lot in our private Facebook group, hasn't it, last few weeks?

Yeah. Fear of the white codes, fear of tests, waiting for results, and it's a particularly challenging time.

It's challenging for anyone, but if you're living with anxiety, then of course it's going to

heighten the anxiety.

I think we begin by, as we so often do just expressing self appreciation and

self compassion that nobody likes to be scrutinized in this way.

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