Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your anxiety.

Welcome to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan Banderleke here with my Slayer sister Ananga Severe. We come together weekly on

Skype to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions from

our inbox and Facebook page and together we're armed with a powerful

collection of techniques to reduce anxiety. We love to mix up a potent blend of of passionate about what we do and this is the release of our 200th

podcast and we're very excited that we're here and looking at this 200

podcast it's pretty exciting and I know that you're pretty fired up as well

Ananga. How did we get to 200 one week at a time I guess right? One week at a time for

four years, yeah. Yeah, really cool. Today we're going to share a listener question from Facebook.

I'm terrified of taking time to take care of myself

since I'm a caregiver to three special needs people and taking care of me

takes time away from taking care of them. I can't handle the thought of letting

them down or something happening to them while I'm away at a doctor's appointment or doing

what I need to care for myself. Can you help?

Oh, that's a really difficult situation. It's a really tough one. It reminds me of a story somebody

told me many years ago where there's a notice when you're on a plane and it says

if the plane gets into difficulty or reaches a super high

altitude and the oxygen masks come down that you should put your own scum before

trying to assist anybody else even if you have a baby on your lap, you have to be able to breathe before you can

help your own child. There comes a point where we can't help others if we can't breathe if we can't think you

know obviously there's there's a practical example there but we can take the

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