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Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Vanderbilt

here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Civier. We come together

weekly from Kent and Leilinaw to share anxiety Slayer sessions with you and answer listener questions. and anxiety and today we're answering a listener question about handling anticipatory

anxiety. Hi Ananga, patient. Let's begin today by we'll share the

listener comment with you and then we'll dig in.

Hi Shannon Ananga, thank you so much for your podcast. It's been a big help to me since I discovered it over a year ago. I really struggle with

anticipatory anxiety whether it's a work presentation, a date, or just a big event.

I prepare myself mentally for the event, but then beginning the night before I experience sleep disturbances, early wakefulness, and nausea or upset stomach sometimes to the point of vomiting.

My mind zeros in on the big event and I can't distract

myself. This is the most frustrating part of my anxiety because it makes me feel like I can't

do those activities that I'm anxious about even when I enjoy them.

Do you have any tips?

Thank you.

I'm so glad that this question came through. This is so common and I can think of countless

times I've felt this way and I'm sure you can too Anaga.

Yeah, particularly when I was young, remembering so many times when I would feel such awful, anticipatory anxiety.

And we've received a couple of questions on this, so also we had another question in our Facebook group and it's

definitely worth a discussion and looking at what we can do to support ourselves and I think

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