Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer Podcast. I'm Shan Vanderbilt here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe. Hello Ananga?

Hey Shen. We'll start today's show with a listener review as it's relevant to the

theme of this week's episode and the questions that we often receive about

anxiety attacks. I usually never comment on Facebook, but I just have to say

that finding anxiety Slayer has helped me so much. I read books and meditate

but I feel nothing has helped me as much as the resources I've gotten through anxiety slayer.

I love the tapping, the podcast, and I have taken one of the courses that they offer.

I just want to say thank you so much and

please keep it all coming. You have saved me many times from a full-on panic attack.

Plus I can talk myself off the ledge.

That's great to hear isn't it?

Yeah, it really is. listener reviews like that are why we keep showing up.

Yeah, I love that.

Talk myself off the ledge. That's exactly what we need to know how to do.

Let's dive into the top five questions that we get asked about anxiety attacks.

The most common one by far far we've received this so many times

and we've done a couple of shows on it is how can I stop anxiety attacks if I

don't know what's causing them? Yeah that is a good one. Often we don't see the cause of our anxiety

and that can really add to the overwhelm and confusion that often comes with anxiety attacks.

Sometimes there are triggers that we can't see aren't aware of and sometimes there's what we call a drip effect of anxiety building up beneath the surface of our awareness until it reaches a tipping point and we experience a full on anxiety attack.

Anxiety can really feel like an invisible enemy that can strike without warning and

just take you down. It's really hard to live with that looming

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