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.

Hello, Ananga, it's so good to be with you again it's so good to be with you again

for an anxiety slayer Q&A session.

Happy, happy to be here with you today.

Me too Shan, really great to be talking with you today.

The question that we received this week that really resonated with us has to do with panic attacks at night.

This is the message we received.

Hello, Chan and Ananga, you both have been such a positive force in my life. Thank you for all the gifts that you share with us.

I suffer from panic attacks at all times of the day, but mostly in the morning between 7 a.m. and at night.

At night I have a tendency to wake up after being asleep for only an hour or two

and experience a vast array of symptoms, rapid heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and fast shallow breathing.

Is there any way to prevent these from happening?

Maybe something I can eat, drink, or do before bed. I eat clean and exercise

fairly regularly, though I do spend most of my day sitting at a desk. Any advice? Thanks for all you do.

Something that a lot of us that have suffered or do suffer with anxiety experience and it's an awful thing to have to deal with one minute you're

asleep in the next minute you're sitting up with a pounding heart and feeling so

unwell and so disturbed. As we've discussed many times in previous podcasts, look out for triggers, start keeping a brief log of what you did, what you ate, and what you drank during the day before, and see how that affected you that night if you have an episode then rewind look very carefully or what happened the day before and just look for clues look for things that you might be able to change. Be aware that things like alcohol and caffeine

can both cause anxiety at night. Sometimes people drink in the evening to relax and initially

it seems that that's what's happened. But a few hours into the night they can wake up feeling really panicky

with a fast heart feeling claustrophobic and feeling like they've just got to get out of bed or even get out the house

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