Anxiety Self-Talk Healing
Understanding Anxiety • The Nervous System • The Freeze Response • A Three-Step Healing Method
What Anxiety Is
Anxiety is a natural protective signal from the body…
Types of Anxiety
- General anxiety
- Social anxiety
- Situational anxiety
- Trauma-based anxiety
- Panic responses
- Freeze-based anxiety
Why Working With Anxiety Matters
Understanding anxiety creates the space for healing…
The Autonomic Nervous System
The sympathetic system prepares the body for action…
The parasympathetic system restores calm…
The vagus nerve communicates safety or danger…
The Freeze Response
Freeze is the body’s protective shutdown when overwhelming experience feels too much…
Your Three-Step Anxiety Self-Talk Method
1. Recognize
“There is anxiety.”
2. Open
“This is my anxiety.”
3. Bless
Blessing the anxiety allows it to soften and release…
It all belongs to LOVE — G. Ross Clark