21 - Managing Your Anxiety Better (Even While You’re In It)

Annaliese and Alan dig into the everyday challenges of living with anxiety, sharing insights that have helped them and others in handling anxious thoughts. As Annaliese experiences anxiety during this episode, she walks you through her real-time strategies for catching it, managing it, and staying empowered while you handle it for yourself differently.

You'll Hear About:

1. Little Choices of Power: Practice making small choices throughout your day to think about yourself in ways that reinforce your capability. Feel yourself pick to steer away from the feeling of helplessness and toward the feeling of confidence even while you're feeling anxiety.

2. Shifting Focus to the Positive: Notice how anxiety grows when your attention is on the negative. Annaliese and Alan discuss redirecting your attention from what's not working to what IS, effectively helping what's positive gain power over anxiety.

3. Speaking Truths to Soothe Anxiety: Increase your awareness of your own anxiety triggers and discover the power of speaking helpful truths to yourself. Annaliese emphasizes your capability to approach things differently when you base your actions on what you know is true.

4. Embracing Imperfections with Peace: Embrace the expectation that anxiety and negative feelings are part of life. Annaliese and Alan discuss how accepting these moments brings peace and a genuine sense of your own capability, even in imperfect, challenging circumstances.

Resources:

• www.linktree.com/coachannaliese - Ready to handle anxiety the ways you want to? Grab your free 60-minute Discovery Chat with Annaliese for insights and tools to use in your own personal situation!

• Effective Anxiety Management:
  Acknowledge that a helpful goal for anxiety is not to eliminate it but to feel more capable in handling it. Approach your anxiety one step at a time, focusing on empowering yourself. As you practice, notice how your anxiety feels less intense and lasts a shorter time.

  Affirmations:

  • "I can handle this better than I think I can."
  • "I'm more capable than I've thought before."
  • "I'm more in charge."
  • "I have something I can use to help myself right now."
  • "I'm allowed to struggle AND handle this better."

Steps to Manage Anxiety Better:

1. Shift Your Self-Concept: Move from feeling helpless to being in charge. Annaliese encourages you to remind yourself of your ability to help yourself and to use resources you already have.

2. Reframe Your Anxiety Story: Interrupt and reframe the narrative. Change the rules in your thoughts to showcase how capable you are and how you can benefit yourself in the moment.

3. Spiritual Application: Notice where God has given you truth promises in Bible verses that you can take action on in new ways. Even if you don’t know how you can get more “peace that passes understanding”, He said He gave you access to it. You can practice letting go of pressure and take hold of that peace, as many times as you need through your day.

Tune in for a deeply personal conversation on navigating anxiety and empowering yourself through practical steps.