Welcome to the Calm Mom podcast. Michelle Grocer here. Thanks for being with us on a rewind Friday

episode. This summer, we are bringing back some of your favorite episodes, your most downloaded

episodes, the ones that you just couldn't get enough of. And today we're throwing it back to episode 185,

which was three reasons you struggle with high functioning anxiety

and what to do about it.

Do you ever feel anxious, but you just can't really pinpoint why?

Like there's nothing that you could point to and be like,

this is what's going on that's

making me feel anxious and once it passes or resolves i know i'm going to be back to myself

and i'm going to feel fine again because that's the thing with high functioning anxiety is that's

not always so easy to detect right we seem to be functioning well we get by in our day to day

lives we show up to work.

We work good moms. We're good partners. But under this surface, there's kind of this like

brewing, right? We feel like this edginess and this stress and this overwhelm just kind of churning

under the surface, this sense that, you know, everything is urgent and there's not

enough time and we're running behind and we feel tired but wired. Our body is telling us to slow down,

but we don't know how to do that, right? Our brain just cannot turn it off. And I've been there

and I know how exhausting it is to live with high functioning anxiety.

So today we're bringing back this episode so we can talk about it.

We're going to talk about three of the most common roots of high functioning anxiety.

And then I'll coach you guys through some ways that you can really start the healing process.

And if as you listen to this episode, you really resonate a lot with high functioning anxiety, guys, this is a symptom, a classic

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