Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Banderleak here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe. We come together weekly to share

anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page. In this week's podcast, we're

answering a listener question about how to manage anger and overwhelm that can often come along with anxiety.

Welcome back in Nanga. Hey Shen. We'll get started today by, I'll just go ahead and read that question and then we can dive right into our conversation

I would love an episode on tackling anger and frustration from anxiety when I've had an anxious day at work,

I tend to go home and feel really irritable.

I start snapping at my partner and get very annoyed

when simple inconveniences come up. I can start arguments so fast for no reason at all.

Does anyone else experience this? And how can you step back and not let yourself get overwhelmed and angry by frustration?

I thought this was such a great question. I'm so glad we're covering it today.

Yeah, it's really well observed and for sure many of us have experienced

there. Sometimes we're so troubled by anxiety and uncomfortable looking into ourselves and our own anxiety that we may start some friction elsewhere and it's almost a diversion from it.

It's to taking ourselves out of ourselves.

It's a way of not looking at what's going on inside, not looking at

what we're feeling in our body, not feeling what we're feeling in our body and having that

bit of spice, that heated conflict there can sometimes serve as a diversion although not a healthy choice.

No, it makes such a big mess. I mean, I picture it as kind of like walking into a room with a smoke bomb and just you know

dropping it on the floor and the thing is it's not our intention it's not like we're

setting out to do it it just happens and then you create a bigger mess for the people that you love.

Yeah for everyone concerned and we fry our own nervous system and

Irovator does teach in this regard that there are certain energies that can

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