Nobody teaches you how to feel anxious. They teach you how to make it stop.

And that's the problem — because most of us aren't actually struggling with anxiety. We're struggling with our resistance to it.

This isn't another anxiety toolkit. I've done the breathing episodes, and all of that still stands. These are the few things I actually use on myself and with my coaching clients that I rarely hear anyone talk about.

Inside this episode:

Why the answer isn't more positivity — and why your brain knows when you're lying to it. Why your body on a treadmill and your body mid-spiral are doing exactly the same thing, and why you'll happily pay a gym for one and panic about the other. The three words I use instead of arguing with my brain's predictions. And the question that tells you instantly whether you're in a real emergency or just watching a very creative film your brain wrote about your future.

Anxiety doesn't need to be fixed. It needs to be felt. Get better at that, and you get better at everything downstream of it.

Also in this episode: the launch of the Julie Fitzsimons Library and History Scholarship — $1,500 towards study for a young person in Sydney's Bayside Council area, created in honour of my beautiful mum and the library she walked into at 18 and never really left. Apply or pass it on → nicoleandjulie.com

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