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In this class, I'm going to be beginning a two-part series and the focuses on healing anxiety

and in the second part we'll also look at directly some of the most painful parts of anxiety

including sleeplessness.

But I wanted to hone in on this because anxiety is so big.

One woman I've been corresponding with, a writer, Carol Peterson, describes it that

we have a PTSD culture.

That's a gem of a way of describing it, a PTSD culture and the pervasive expression of

that is anxiety.

And I remember a couple of years ago, some of you might remember this also in the New York

Times, there was a woman, a 37-year-old social media consultant who was focused on it in

an article because she had texted a friend in Oregon about an impending visit and because

her friend didn't write back right away, she kind of freaked out and so she posted on

Twitter to her 16,000 plus followers.

I don't hear from my friend for a day.

I thought they don't want to be my friend anymore.

And she wrote a hashtag, this is what anxiety feels like and that set off a whole thousands

of people offering up their examples of this is what anxiety feels like.

So it said that we have switched from the country, the pro-Zach nation to the United States

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