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Jun 28, 2022Liked by Drew Linsalata

I am in Costa Rica for two weeks, alone, staying with a family who speaks no English (I'm on a trip to improve my Spanish) in a very foreign city. I have spent two days feeling quite anxious, and I have been reminding myself that this is an ENTIRELY normal reaction to being in this type of situation! It's funny how we can lose sight of that when we get so focused on our problematic anxiety-- sometimes we think that feeling any anxiety means we are having a setback, rather than recognizing that every human feels this way from time to time (or, like, a ton of the time).

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Another extraordinary and helpful newsletter. Thank you Drew!

Just a question, is there any difference between stress and anxiety? My guess is that too much stress can lead you to disordered anxiety? And maybe, you can manage stress easily? And even choose to be stressed or not? Different from being anxious or not?

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Ahh yes, when your husband has cancer and you go for CT scans MRI and Chemo. Normal anxiety. The choice to recognize it for what it is and not feed into it is yours. I will admit there are times when that line gets blurred and sometimes I can’t tell anymore. But working the tools always help to calm the storms. Love you Big Guy.

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Jun 27, 2022Liked by Drew Linsalata

This is so excellent. I can relate so much to this. I know lately I’ve surely been practicing my seven percent slower… so much stuff going on this week! Thank you for this !!

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I’m always trying to be mindful with my anxiety when I feel it so much I stop and say this is normal for example I felt so much yesterday but I had job Interview lol So yea lots of people feel this type of anxiety and I know when I start tomorrow morning I’ll feel more anxious like a ‘normal person’ on their first day of work lol anxiety is very tricky I’m starting to notice that and not allow to run my life anymore. Thank you and Good luck drew can’t wait till next Monday

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Hi Drew

Great newsletter. It's helping keep me centred.

As an idea for an article, perhaps you could talk about contingent anxiety. For example, when I first had a panic attack I thought I was dying and developed a morbid fear that I was going to have a heartie at any moment. Over time this fear faded and I thought I had bested it using your methods.

Then, out of the blue, I get an aching pain in my shoulder and the whole fear hits me full in the face again. Maybe it was because I had heard a story recently of a bloke who had shoulder pain and it turned out to be a heart issue, but I think it was possibly that my lack of anxiety was actually contingent upon a lack of symptoms.

When the symptoms returned the anxiety hit again because I had never dealt with it like I thought I had. It was contingent upon me feeling good.

Anyways, cheers for all your work.

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