How to tame your anxiety monster…

Mindset Tip for Midlifers…

Instead of telling yourself you feel anxious give those feelings a name.

❓Why? Because naming it helps your 🧠 brain to disassociate from that feeling so it doesn’t feel like part of you... (Remember it’s not who you are it’s just a stress response.)

This will lower the intensity of the feelings.

Here’s how it works:

I recently did this with a young person I’m working with in school. She named her anxiety monster Bernard.

We visualised Bernard as a green troll that is always saying negative things. 🧌

We imagined shrinking him down to the size of a pea.

We then gave him a silly squeaky voice and imagined turning that voice down.

Lastly, we imagined flicking Bernard away.

✨This took away Bernard’s power 🙌🏻

Now every time those thoughts & feelings come up she is now able to tell Bernard to go away.

What would you call yours ?? Comment below.

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