If anxiety has a grip on you, you may feel flustered and frustrated. Learn your anxiety style and start managing it effectively. 

When you recognize your anxiety style, you'll understand yourself and your reactions better. In addition, you'll be able to implement transformative strategies and improve relationships.

Go from flustered to flourishing

Are you ready to go from flustered to flourishing? Whether you’ve had anxiety in your life or you know someone who has, there are certain styles of anxiety that result in how people react to, and experience, anxiety. Likewise,  there are certain strategies that you can practice at the moment and apply to your daily life to better navigate anxiety. By applying the strategies, you can avoid spiraling out of control, damaging relationships, or hurting other people as a result of your anxiety building.  

Much of the work Amber Trublood does is about helping you understand your motivational style and your super sense. What visceral sense are you most attuned to. When you understand that, you can better match your strategies for navigating anxiety and life in general. What is your anxiety style, what really drives you and your reactions?

Ask yourself, what reactions aren’t serving you, for example, when anxiety is building, and what do you feel when you are flourishing? Much like having two sides of a coin, you have an anxiety style and superhero traits. 

Different anxiety styles for different people

You are attuned to different things in a different way than somebody with a different anxiety style. Where can you celebrate those differences and your uniqueness? Let's acknowledge and celebrate the amazing things about you. For example, if you are good at being tuned into the present moment, celebrate your ability to do so. Because not everyone can do it. 

Or, another example, some people are super tuned into the needs of others, or super focused on planning and organizing and can collect a lot of details in their heads. Note what skills and abilities you have that maybe other people don't have and celebrate those. Maybe through this process, you can elicit a little bit more compassion.

Not only have compassion for other people in your life who maybe aren't skilled in those ways but have more compassion for yourself. 

Amber believes that when you spend a lot of time in self-judgment and shame and being unkind to yourself, it's a waste of your time.

Understanding your specific anxiety style and what may be contributed to that, can help you elicit some self-kindness. 

The 5 Anxiety Styles 

1. Lover
2. Fighter 
3. Executive 
4. Visionary 
5. Dynamo

 

The five styles of anxiety are based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Four of the styles directly correlate with the needs. 

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is fundamental needs we have as humans. Everyone has different needs and experiences life and triggers differently. Even siblings have different responses to how they were raised or the experiences surrounding their needs being met. One sibling may be more deeply and profoundly influenced by experiences than another sibling.  

Similarly, everyone is their own person. Therefore, you're the best judge of your own self-care and what's going to work for you. And often, you know, more about yourself and your needs than you give yourself credit for.

Recognizing your anxiety style and implementing strategies to navigate it

Once you recognize your anxiety style, implement one strategy at a time to manage it and build from there. Also, know that you may have one primary anxiety style and a secondary style. Understanding the five anxiety styles will help you feel more connected and compassionate toward others. 

 

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The Unflustered Mom 

Website for Amber Trublood 

 

Robyn's book: You, Me, and Anxiety

Download my free eBook: A guide for alleviating anxiety by developing healthy habits for a healthy mind.