It is the time of the year when people start setting goals and intentions for the future. When you have an anxiety disorder, this might feel overwhelming. You may want to go on vacation but have difficulty leaving the house. You may want to drive but have difficulty even as a passenger. This episode deals with how to set and achieve goals when you deal with chronic and debilitating anxiety. All while establishing a sense of safety in the body rather then traditional exposure that can make us freeze.

In this episode Jen talks about how to talk to your loved ones and acquaintances about your anxiety.

It is such a frustrating feeling when you can't do the things you used to be able to do without experiencing panic. You may have shopped at Target 1000 times and then one day, you can't do it (or go to a restaurant or movie theatre) without experiencing panic. In this episode, Jen explains how and why the brain can associate places as dangerous and what we can do about it. As always, the content discussed in this podcast is for information purposes only. Please reach out to your health team with any questions or concerns about your mental and physical health.

In this episode, Jen talks about the importance of movement during a stress response. When an animal experiences a threat it doesn't sit down to meditate or take a few deep breaths and neither should we. She discusses what the arousal cycle should like look, how most of us are dealing with stress and what we need to do instead.

In this episode, Jen talks about the difference between anxiety and debilitating anxiety/anxiety disorders, talks about some of her own experience with anxiety, introduces the anxiety ladder and addresses the question "can we actually get rid of anxiety?"

When you are dealing with debilitating anxiety, one of the most frustrating things you can hear from a doctor is that it is "just anxiety". In this episode we talk about the very real somatic symptoms that anxiety can bring with it and how we should be approaching it instead.