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. And then, I'm going to be with you again today and to come together and talk about a few tips for self-care over the holiday season.

I think it's important that our listeners know that they can find relief this time of year

with sometimes what can be overwhelming calendar and event

list and to-do list etc.

One of the challenges of the Christmas holidays is that we lose sight of ourselves.

And I've done talks on this before, teleclasses and coached people through the stress and anxiety that comes up through the holidays and

I think it's important that we share that we can get very easily sucked into

other people's agendas this time of year because we might feel

that our well is dry because we might be low energy or feel like oh my goodness I you know I have this list to do and this project to take care of and

this recipe to create and then this many people to visit and so on and so forth.

And so it feels to me like the right time to remind the anxiety slayer

listeners about the importance of setting aside even a few minutes each day to do something that you enjoy.

Guess I'd like to start by asking you how you care for yourself during the holiday.

What is your particular routine?

I try and set aside a bit of time for quiet and contemplation and if I can have that I'm okay.

My physical energy isn't always particularly high and that can be a challenge in that you get dragged around by other people's emotions. When there's other excitable people around you or energetic people around you

you can find that you become the sort of lowest common denominator socially because you just

haven't got the resistance to say I'm going for a walk or I'm doing this or all that so I take a lot of shelter in getting up early and having my meditative practice there in the morning before all the business happens then that stays with me throughout the whole day

whatever the day brings I like to take a little time out here and there to read or I'll take the opportunity to go for a walk if I can.

I think you bring something so important to the table is that we are responsible

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