The Anxiety Cycle: We All Experience It

Navigating Religious OCD

In this episode, Sariah expresses that we all experience the anxiety cycle and it can be a powerful tool to keep us safe. However, when we're consistently in the anxiety cycle, this can be unhealthy. Sariah uses stories to explain some differences between healthy and unhealthy experiences with anxiety.
She shares a resource she has found to be so valuable in learning more about the anxiety cycle and how to navigate it in healthy ways.
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Contents of this episode:
00:00- Intro
00:09- Episode Overview
00:22- Where you can find me
00:57- Diving In
01:00- Anxiety Cycle Chart
01:30- The Power of Learning about the Anxiety Cycle
02:04- Rattlesnake Story: A Healthy Experience in Anxiety Cycle
03:00- Your brain’s goal is to…
03:19- Hey Warrior- How anxiety might show up physically
04:58-Back to the Story
06:06- Cicada Story: A Healthy Experience with Anxiety
07:56- Cicada Story #2: An Unhealthy Experience in the Anxiety Cycle
08:55- Effects of an Unhealthy Relationship with Anxiety
09:41- Why the Anxiety Cycle makes a lot of sense
09:58- What’s your relationship with anxiety?
10:37- There are tools you can learn to change this
10:49- One of my favorite resources
11:39- Conclusion
Resources:
Therapy in a Nutshell. https://therapyinanutshell.com/
Young, K. (2017). Hey Warrior: A book for kids about anxiety. Hey Sigmund Publishing.
Music: Vlad Gluschenko — Positive Thinking
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en