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 friend and partner, Ananga Severe.

We come together weekly on Skype to share anxiety slayer sessions with you and often answer

listener questions from our inbox and Facebook page.

Together we're armed with a powerful collection of

techniques to reduce anxiety. We like to mix up a potent blend of coaching,

storytelling, Iirveda, yoga, guided Relaxations, and EFT Tapping, along with our many years of personal experience.

And today we're going to be discussing self-compassion, what it is, how we talk to ourselves, awareness of our thoughts, and being with how we're feeling

versus running and hiding. Welcome, Ananga. Hi, Shen.

It's wonderful to be with you again today to be talking about self-compassion.

Yeah, it's a really important part of recovery from anxiety, looking after yourself, nicely when you're suffering from anxiety and panic attacks.

And it's something that's very often gets buried under those intense feelings of anxiety when we're running around trying to escape those horrible feelings or even when we're trying to have a quiet moment and we've spoken about this before like this surge of anxiety comes up in us and

really makes us feel so uncomfortable and we do anything to get away from it.

But self-compassion is so important for our self-healing, self-awareness, and to start to build a place of kindness,

kindness towards our self, which is a very powerful antidote to anxiety.

I find and I know that you do as well Ananga that often what happens is rather than showing ourselves the compassion and

we're often what happens is rather than showing ourselves the compassion that we deserve and the love that we deserve when we're suffering,

we're actually hard on ourselves.

Yeah, we can easily be hard on ourselves and if you think about it if somebody

else is harsh towards us when we feel anxious it feels so awful and so painful and it definitely

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