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Welcome, it's so good to have you back to Anxiety Slayer.

I'm Shan van der Leak here with my friend and brilliant partner Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share Anxiety Slayer sessions with you and enjoy answering

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Today we're going to discuss a support plan for recovering from shock or trauma.

Welcome, Ananga. This has been a subject that we've been asked about quite a bit lately is how can I best

support myself to get beyond a significant shock or trauma and I know that you've got

some great ideas about this that begin with how we nourish ourselves.

Yeah the first thing to do is to acknowledge that we need extra support,

again as we've spoken about in recent podcasts, our tendency is to try and keep going and

it's something that I still have to remind myself of if we've had a shark or a illness or a rocky time

We really do need especially if we're prone to suffering from anxiety to allow some time and space for some extra

Self-Care to help ourselves feel calm and functional again confident and steady so nutrition is really key and the key to remember really is to favour warm, easy to digest nourishing meals. Things like raw foods and salads,

although they're very popular these days, they're actually very hard to

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