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If you've got anxiety, you're in the right place. Today I'm bringing you a three minute script that you can use to help you manage your anxiety today. Hello, my name is Kimberly Quinlan. Welcome to your anxiety toolkit where we bring you virtual hugs and helpful strategic skills to help you manage your anxiety. I'm so thrilled you're here with me today. I am going to give you a specific three minute script. You can either listen to it from me every morning if you choose, or you can download the script, put it in your own voice, record it, listen back to it, whatever serves you best. My goal is to give you a script that can get you up in the morning, get you going with your day so that anxiety does not take over and take control. So let's do this together. I am so excited to be with you here today. Now, before we get started, I wanted to talk to you about the ways in which anxiety can take over your day. Maybe you have health anxiety and your anxiety is telling you to keep checking. Maybe you have social anxiety. Your anxiety is telling you to avoid that event or that interaction today. Maybe you have depression anxiety and it is telling you that you cannot get out of bed, that it's not even worth it. Maybe you have OCD and it's wanting you to do compulsions. Maybe it's panic disorder and it's telling you to do everything you can to avoid that panic attack, no matter what you're struggling with. Today, I want to encourage you to change the mindset you have. Now, that doesn't mean, like, you just click your fingers and you feel like, oh, I've got a great mindset now. No, that's not what we're talking about. We're talking specifically about the way in which you talk to yourself. That matters. In fact, it matters more than most of the skills we teach here at your anxiety toolkit. Now, while we need all of those skills, absolutely. The thing to remember here is how you talk to yourself, how you coach yourself through those difficult moments and can determine whether you get up, do the things you need to do, or whether you avoid or beat yourself up. So I really want to encourage you to think about the way in which you talk to yourself, the words you say, the tone in which you use. And you're going to need to think about those things as you use this script day in and day out. Now, one thing to remember here is the reason that this can be so powerful is that cortisol levels are higher in the morning. Cortisol is a hormone that Again, it makes us feel very anxious. It makes our heart race. That will be higher in the morning, which often explains why you feel so anxious in the morning and why it feels a little harder to get going and move into the day. That is another reason why this kind, compassionate voice and these kind, compassionate tone that you're going to be using and the words that you're going to use are so important, because we do have an increase in cortisol and that can help slow down the nervous system. Your parasympathetic nervous system can come into play and help you feel like you can actually get the things done that you need to get done. Okay, so if you're looking for effective.