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 Vanderleak here with my partner Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly via Skype sessions

to share podcasts with you and often answer

listener questions from our Facebook page and inbox.

Together we're armed with a powerful collection of techniques to reduce anxiety

and we love to mix up a potent blend of storytelling in Ayurveda, EFT tapping, coaching, along with our many years

of personal experience.

We are passionate about what we do and we're celebrating our fifth album this month

Sleep guided relaxations for a good night's sleep which will be coming soon to Amazon and the iTunes Music Store.

I thought we'd start with the listener question.

It's a good one, especially for this time of year,

and it goes like this.

I seem unable to relax I take everything so personally and that makes me react in ways I do not want to react.

Yeah, that's a really interesting question. I think it's something we've all experienced from time to time.

One of the key life skills in dealing with those feelings when we're taking things personally and we really can start to feel very hurt and unsettles.

And I think the first thing to do with that is to practice questioning your feelings.

This is something I was taught many years ago and somebody gave the example of

if somebody comes into the house and slams the door and you feel it means they're angry,

does it really mean they're angry?

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