HAVE you ever tried supporting yourself? ~ your inner voice can be a big cause for anxiety. How?👇🏼 . 🎨@spiritdaughter 😊 ✒@anxiety_wellbeing . This is great advice for supporting another human through lifes, trials, tribulations, challenges, uncertanty, its all normal. What we need is to be able to speak & say how we feel. . TALK thought it with someone who listens. This process is magic for validating your feelings & having a way to find solutions. . DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN BE THAT PERSON?❤ . LET'S imagine that when you stop for a second to think, "what was that I was just thinking?" you discover that in a moment of Stress Challenge Uncertainty You've said to yourself subconsciously or consciously👇🏼 . 🗣I feel like I NEED to cry this is tough, I am being silly. Stop it now. . 🗣You SHOULD know what your doing, how come you don't know? . 🗣I feel my body feels a bit ANXIOUS. Just say it's ok just keep going. . 🗣I FEEL like I was once in this situation before, why does this keep happening? Why me? . 🗣I am FOCUSED on how I am, I feel down. . This way of speaking to yourself is another way to shut down what you need. To block your own growth. Put yourself down. These thoughts are all learnt from people in your past, the environments you were in &are in, or the way you viewed situations. . Here's a more supportive way to speak to yourself. Notice if you have not been kind to yourself such as the self talk above👆 . ❤I UNDERSTAND 🤗you need to cry, this IS tough & emotions are normal, you need to allow yourself to let that out. Maybe not now but later on schedule a sad film or song to have a good😓 . ❤I must CHAMPION myself. If i don't know then I've not learnt it, I am capable of learning anything, I must look for ways to do that. . ❤I FEEL anxious. What is my body trying to tell me? What do I need? Water, breathe a break? Etc. I CAN stop to action what I need to feel calmer. . ❤I keep finding myself in the SAME situation. I am GOING TO look at my patterns or thought-feelings-behaviour to find out what I do to keep being here. Then I can change that(TRY CBT) . ❤DISTRACT -what made me smile? what does cheer me up? Let's do that . Cbtpractitioner Next avail oct