Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

What do you do when you feel anxious?

If you're anything like me, you want to retreat, you want to go under the covers, you want to stay

home, you want a quiet night in, you don't want to see anybody, everything feels

overwhelming and you just want to shut it all off. Well, what if we tried something else called

opposite action? This is what we need to understand about anxiety. It makes any situation

100,000, a million times worse and more dangerous in our minds

than it actually is. I think we all know this feeling. Anxiety is perhaps the least reliable

narrator there is and it has us living in our imagination. So what do we do? What do I do in brave moments when I feel anxious?

I just take it with me. You can do this too. You can be anxious and go to the event. You can be

anxious and go to work. You can be anxious and have that conversation. You can be anxious and start

that project. Anxiety is only a problem,

especially in the long term, if it prevents us from doing stuff, if it holds us back and keeps

us small. So what if it could ride along in the car with you? What if it's in your handbag? What if

it's part of your experience? But it's just not in charge. Your anxiety will

have you believe that everything is dangerous. Everything's out to get you. You are under threat and you

need to be serious. You need to take care of yourself. That is what your imagination will tell you.

But reality, when you go out there, when you hit that event, when you go to the

boardroom, when you engage in life, reality proves that you're actually safe. So anxiety's

fine. It's part of the human experience. The danger is when it stops us from being who we are

and living our fullest expression. So instead of caving to it,

thinking, okay, I'm just going to like hide in my bed today, what if you just took it with you

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