What to do when the darker evenings make your anxiety worse

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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#561 In this week's Anxiety Slayer podcast, we're talking about how to adjust to the darker evenings and keep anxiety in check during what can be a challenging time of year for many anxiety sufferers. Today’s Anxiety Slayer podcast is sponsored by Betterhelp Are stress and anxiety interfering with your happiness? Have you been considering seeing a therapist but not sure where to start? Betterhelp will assess your counseling needs and match you with your own licensed professional therapist so you can start getting the support you need online in under 24 hours. Special offer for Anxiety Slayer listeners - get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/slayer

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0:00.0	Today's anxiety Slayer Pod
0:17.0	anxiety Slayer. Today's Anxiety Slayer podcast is sponsored by Better Help. Are stress and anxiety interfering with your happiness?
0:20.0	Have you been considering seeing a therapist but you're not sure where to start?
0:25.1	Better help will assess your counseling needs and match you with your own licensed professional
0:29.4	therapist so you can start getting the support you need online in under 24 hours.
0:35.0	Special offer for anxiety Slayer listeners,
0:38.0	get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com,
0:43.0	forward slash Slayer, that's Better H-E-L-P.com
0:47.0	forward slash Slayer.
0:49.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shannon Vanderleak here with my wonderful friend and partner,
0:56.2	Ananga Sivir. And this month we're celebrating 12 years together, producing the Anxiety Slayer podcast and all of the other offerings that we have
1:06.2	albums and the Academy and courses and it's been a wonderful beautiful friendship and we absolutely love creating these podcasts for you and look forward to many more in the days to come.
1:21.0	So thank you for listening. Welcome back in Nanga hey Shen today we're going to be speaking about what you can do when the darker evenings make your anxiety worse and here they they come, they're here, darker evenings earlier,
1:36.9	darker mornings with the sun coming up later, and it does affect all of us and there are so many good things that you can do to feel
1:48.3	better when this is happening and we'll start with probably what is the most obvious is to make sure that you're getting outside every day
1:58.0	Sometimes it might feel like it's a little bit more difficult to get out when it's darker, but honest goodness if you get out, it's going to make a big difference.
2:08.1	Make the most of what light there is. Get outside as much as you can and walk,
2:14.7	step out briskly, feel your feet connecting with the earth,
2:19.2	drive out for a day of nurturing and nature, somewhere where you can look at the open sky.
2:25.8	You know that Ananga and I often find water whenever we can, whether it's the big lake or
2:31.5	streams,
2:32.5	anything that we can do to be out in nature,
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