Hello, dear members of the Purefield community.

This is Purefield Radio, a podcast hosted by Josephine and Garrett, a husband and wife team of spiritual explorers committed to assisting you on your

journey of awakening. I'm Josephine and I have an English PhD. I'm also the proprietess of

Purefield, Massachusetts, a healing practice where I offer tarot, Akashic record readings, energy

healing, and counseling.

My lovely husband and co-host Garrett has done many jobs in many fields, but he currently educates people on how to make their homes more energy efficient.

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Now, on to the show.

Hello, listeners. So Garrett is off today again. He's at work. And I decided to put together another solo episode

on a key topic and that is fear and anxiety. Now, I think this is really important because a lot

of the clients that I work with in my private practice are currently dealing with anxiety,

with anxious thoughts, with stress. I mean, how could you not write in the current climate that

we are living in, political climate, cultural climate, with all of the news that we get every day,

it's kind of difficult to not be stuck in this cycle of stress and anxiety.

But for some of us, it goes even a little deeper than that,

and we're anxious even when things are relatively peaceful and calm. And that's when

you know this is a problem. This is getting out of hand. So let me tell you a little bit about

my background with this particular topic and my personal experience.

So back in college, so almost a decade ago,

I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety.

So I worked with a therapist using a cognitive behavioral approach, and that really helped me

begin noticing my own cognitive distortions, including catastrophizing, all or nothing thinking,

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