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This week we're talking about how to calm morning anxiety as many of us are facing returning to work or have children who are returning to school or heading off to college.

Hi Ananga, how are you today?

Hey Shen, I'm good, thank you.

It's so good to be with you again and to talk about a subject that we really haven't addressed in quite some time,

but we're getting a lot of questions about so let's dive right

into how we can help ourselves when we suffer with morning anxiety.

When I suffered with anxiety in my youth, late teens, early 20s,

morning anxiety became a real thing for me.

It was very debilitating and I would wake up every morning feeling extremely

shaky and nauseous and found it really hard to step into my day.

What are some of the symptoms of morning anxiety?

The symptoms of morning anxiety are often the same as the symptoms of general anxiety

in my experience with the addition of nausea and loss of appetite.

That's particularly common with morning anxiety but otherwise the usual symptoms,

rapid heartbeat, tight chest, shortness of breath, physical tension, muscle

tension in the body, strong feelings of anxiety or a sense of dread about facing the

day ahead and feeling confused or mentally overwhelmed

like everything's just too much to face.

And thankfully we have lots of suggestions for how to make that better. But before we go there, let's talk about some of the causes of morning anxiety.

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