Help For Morning Anxiety

This is a talk to help you with Morning Anxiety. If you find yourself waking up with immediate anxiety, please know that you are not alone. Although being in cycles of anxious wakefulness can cause us all kinds of discomfort and distress, it is a very common issue which many people experience at times in their lives, and there are many things we can do to bring peace back into our bodies at the moment and to break the cycle altogether.

Transcript

Hi,

This is Alison Potts of InnateBeing.

Welcome to my talk series.

This is a little chat about waking up anxious.

What does that feel like?

I'm not talking about just occasionally waking up with your heart pumping because you've got a big day ahead,

But habitually knowing that you're going to wake up probably earlier than you'd like to.

Feeling immediately on fight or flight,

That your body's on high alert.

The feeling of breathlessness or breathing very rapidly,

Tightening,

Real tension,

Not just in your chest but on other parts of your body.

Your heart beating really fast,

Your thoughts coming thick and fast.

A lot of these thoughts feeling catastrophic and with that are just a feeling of dread and a feeling of dread that you can't put your finger on.

It is as if something from the outside,

And I think this is what's really hard about waking anxiety,

Knows something that you don't that is about some kind of harm there is for you.

A sense of threat where you can't actually pinpoint what the threat is.

So there's a feeling of helplessness.

The body reacts before you have a chance really to decide how you want to wake up and it makes it very hard to relax back into sleep if you need more sleep and it can also mean that you start the day feeling really quite,

I think really quite small,

Quite disempowered,

Anxious obviously but with that feelings that everything is tense,

That there's something around the corner or there's some cloud haunting you and that you have to steel yourself for every moment and that can continue through your day and obviously that affects the kind of day you have and how easily you're activated into reactions by little things going wrong perhaps or little bits of uncertainty,

Just a general tension.

So what do we do about this and also what are the reasons for feeling this way?

One thing that I think it's really important to know and understand is that waking up anxious is very common.

You're not alone.

You're probably among a very big population of people who at any one time,

You know,

Millions of people around the globe actually are waking up feeling like you do.

Sometimes it can be really helpful actually when we wake up to recognize whether it's the middle of the night,

Whether we're not getting to sleep easily or we're waking up feeling anxious,

That we really are not the only person in the world experiencing this and we're in a kind of a community of all the other people who are with us in this.

I kind of feel comforting in a strange way.

It's also not something that you ought to blame for,

It's not your fault and it isn't actually going to harm you.

It feels really uncomfortable and it can ruin what could be a good day,

Especially if you believe that waking up in a certain mood is going to be how you spend your whole day,

That mood is going to carry you through and filter everything,

Which is quite a disempowering thought and not a rational one.

We'll get back to that.

It may feel bad but actually it doesn't mean there's anything seriously wrong with you necessarily.

In fact,

You don't have even to have a serious anxiety disorder to have this experience in your life now and then,

Periods and cycles where you experience waking up anxious.

And there may be a number of contributing factors.

It could be that you're going through a particularly stressful time in your life and there's a lot of adrenaline there.

It may be that there are dietary habits,

Hormonal influences,

Lifestyle influences,

Other habits you have that could be linked to waking up feeling anxious or it could be in your genetics in your family or other reasons that you know about or need to uncover about trauma or deeply buried stress that hasn't been resolved and may need some support,

Which means that for various reasons you're particularly prone to triggers that spike your anxiety.

When we have a lot going on in our life we can wake up on high alert with our blood pumping.

That's our body's way of getting ready for the action of the day and the more you know you have to give your energy to,

The more your body's going to really prep into that.

It's preparing for the action phase of the day.

So for everybody,

Unless there's really not much going on in your life and maybe you're on holiday,

If you've got meaningful things to do in your life you do need a bit of adrenaline like that to start the day.

What we're talking about here is when everything feels like it's too much too soon too fast everything's tumbling in and we don't have a sense of control and it can happen when we should be relaxed.

It could happen even though we're on holiday or even though we really don't have anything that we can think about that requires that much adrenaline in our system.

Generally when we wake up with early morning panic it means that we've already been experiencing stress and anxiety throughout the day before.

If we've been anxious and ungrounded the day before and we haven't had a chance to recover from that by balancing our nervous systems then when we wake up our body does tense and jump into that fight-or-flight feeling and category of symptoms at the memory and the thought of another stressful day ahead.

And then what happens is we can start to build on that by saying I'm feeling anxious I've got so much to do I don't know how I'm going to get on top of everything for example.

And before the day has begun we've started a cycle that's going to repeat.

It started with waking with a kind of early morning dread and it became thoughts and feelings that are now cycling,

Getting bigger.

There are also some biological things at play.

In the latter part of our sleep cycle which tends in people who have a kind of night time normal nighttime sleeping pattern to be the latter part of the night and the early part of the morning we have a slight increase in blood pressure and also in cortisol levels.

Cortisol levels are associated with stress it's healthy to have obviously some cortisol in our body because we want to you know as I said get ready for action but when we have too much cortisol in our body that's when we experience feelings of anxiety panic fight-or-flight and that go into overdrive that we call you know very high stress.

This is all part of our body preparing to start another day and that's why we can have a feeling of being activated when we wake up.

What we want to feel really when we wake up is that we have got things to prepare for we are activated but we also can stay in the restful state a bit longer.

Ideally we'd be able to lie in bed for a bit start thinking about our day start looking forward to certain things in our day making plans welcoming the day as such while the rest of our body is gradually transitioning from rest and dreams and that's what we call the play in meditation we understand that as the play and interplay of our sympathetic nervous system and our parasympathetic nervous system.

The parasympathetic nervous system when we're asleep that's in rest and digest and heal mode and repair mode and we associate that with feelings of relaxation and then the sympathetic nervous system which we associate with a state of adrenaline and activation to allow us to engage with action.

What can happen also with our sleep cycle is that we if we are having a tendency towards anxiety or going through an anxious phase in our lives period in our lives that we might already be getting disturbed and interrupted sleep and that of course is going to create more stress home hormones in the night and any interruptions or disturbances at night to our 90 minute cycle we sort of our sleep cycles through these 90 minute cycles to put it simply if we hear noises that wake us if we like you know your partner's snoring or their alarms going off earlier or we've eaten too late at night or we've had we've drunk alcohol that's going to wake us up in the night when as we as can happen the all of these things can lead to feeling more stress on waking just being a bit dysregulated on waking.

Same thing with our digestive system if we have not eaten enough and we're hungry and our blood sugar is low that can wake us up early and also create feelings of anxiety that's a survival mechanism to ask us to eat or if we've eaten a large meal too late can have the same effect and just put a strain on our system and do remember that during the night we are going for a long time without hydration and without nutrition and so when we wake up our blood sugar levels and our hydration levels are going to be low and those things if prolonged can create the same symptoms of anxiety you know having tension feeling low feeling a bit spacey some strange sensations in our body so those are all things that can contribute to waking up with anxiety and what's useful about knowing what contributes is once you know you can start looking at your own situation and break down the areas to which you can pay attention.

You can read a lot of articles and you know this in this recording I'm going to offer you some tips but we read a lot of articles which might be like six tips for every you wake up anxious not all of them are going to be helpful to you because they might not all of them apply to the reasons for your anxiety or the kind of anxiety you're having so when you read any tips and even listening to the tips I'm going to talk about remember these are things you can explore you can look at but if they don't work for you don't think that's because there's something wrong with you or your anxiety is impenetrable just maybe think in this case this particular action is not right for me because it's just not not matching a need just keep exploring and experimenting and also there are some tips that are suggested and I'm going to touch on this too a little bit later that actually for some people might be the reverse of what you want to do and I think when you listen to me explaining those things what they might be it's something you wake up to pretty quickly you'll realize if you've maybe been doing something as you've read this is a good thing to do but maybe it's become part of what's making you you feel more anxious you know the first thing we need to know is there's no need to feel more anxious and there's no need to feel very anxious about being anxious even though our body because it's in a state of alarm seems to be making us want to feel that we can keep reminding ourselves when we're safe we're not going to come to any harm how does waking up anxious affect you I know that when that's happened when it's happened to me it can start to become a cycle where I expect to get anxious in the morning so even as I'm going to bed I'm expecting you to get anxious and it becomes a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy I wake up and I'm like where's the anxiety you know I might wake up feeling this nanosecond of peacefulness and I'm like oh but where's the anxiety because I expect it so you kind of invite it in by looking for it it can keep us in a spiralling story of suffering you know like this is really bad that this is happening to me it means something's wrong with me I'm not getting enough rest this isn't good for my body it's not healthy I'm not coping I'm ill I'm going crazy all these paybacks this is gonna ruin my productivity this I'm not gonna be able to do all the things I want to do I'm going to be snapping at my kids today you know all of these things can become very big stories even going back into the past I wouldn't be like this if I hadn't had that difficult time in childhood I wouldn't be like this if that hadn't happened to me and then beating ourselves up I should be able to cope with this those things shouldn't affect me the poor me stories and all of these of course are asking our body to stay in a state of alert they're definitely not giving our nervous system anything peaceful to get on to are they and the other thing is the third thing is so we can fall out of love with sleep we can begin to fear bed and nighttime and rest rather than see you know our beds as this lovely snuggly safe nest this place of rest and healing and that means we can put off going to sleep or we can drink alcohol before we go to sleep because we want to feel calm about going to sleep and then of course we know that those things also are the things that disrupt our sleep so again all these things we do which are natural and protective and ways we try to look after ourselves can actually make things worse so to repeat those three things just so that you can remember them there's a cycle of expecting caused by expecting to wake up anxious that's number one number two there's keeping ourselves in a story of suffering where we just add more and more suffering thoughts based on what waking up anxious will do to us in our lives and mean about our character and thirdly the beginning to have fears around sleep the very place which is there to make us feel more peaceful more happy and more healthy now I mentioned earlier that some of the standard tips might not be working for us or they might be things we've done a lot of but we haven't seen a big effect so for example all of my friends will say you know I'm fed up of reading articles saying don't have a TV in your room I don't have a TV in my room turn your screen off don't look at your phone before bed I don't look at my phone before bed don't read bad news before bed I'm not reading bad news before bed you know you don't drink alcohol or don't eat too late like the whole list of things just associate your room with sleep and nothing else and they've done all the things and this still it still hasn't helped them and that's when we can begin to think well if these tips that are supposed to help aren't helping then I'm really in trouble no it doesn't mean that it just means that there's more things you can do those are to help some people and sometimes that's the reason people are having these problems but there's usually a lot more to it also some of these tips can work against you one of the tips that I'm going to mention always look to see in a way in which a tip might be working against you and one of the ones that I'm going to mention is journaling so some people recommend a brain dump where when you before you go to bed or if you wake up in the night or if you wake up anxious reach for a journal and a pen and dump down all your feelings and then you've got them out of your system and you can go back to sleep now I know that does work for some people no doubt but it can become keeping a journal can become a way of keeping up levels of rumination especially if what you're writing down is if why is this happening to me I don't like that this is happening to me and you're writing down your story of suffering and for people who are actually people who are very good writers and have very strong imaginations or can meditate easily with guided meditations because they can visit a state very easily journaling can be a blessing or a curse depending on what you're writing about if you're writing a gratitude journal writing about all the great things that happen to you all the things you're looking forward to you're writing all your reassuring thoughts then you're visiting that state as you journal that's fantastic if you're writing about it a lot of things that are negative that feel harmful feel sad feel painful to you you're also visiting that state if you're someone who who really feels what that what they're writing as they're writing it so it's less of a dump where you're really offloading and more of a way of ruminating so have a think in fact have a look back perhaps on your journals and see is there a lot of ruminating in there is it literally a bone dump a brain dump I'm sorry or is it that you've gone into patterns saying I worry about this because this is going to lead to this and that'll lead to that and that'll lead to that because you're not really dumping that you're just expressing and revivifying feelings you already have you're actually putting your spiralling on paper and and that can mean that you're entering into it more deeply it's the same with sometimes talking to friends for reassurance you know they say phone a friend and if you have a friend who's a really good listener but doesn't know that you can use talking as a way of ruminating they might not be able to come in and say yes I really feel you and I've mentioned that is there anything I can do to help is there anything you know that helps you know that's not to say that you're trying to rush into fixing your friend or being fixed by your friend but it's about shifting from repetitive patterns of talking you know obsessing there's a difference between talking and obsessing or sharing something and sharing something because you need you have a compulsion for talking about something and having reassurance come back over and over again because those sorts of things sustain anxious states and a journal can represent all of that so what can you do that could be helpful okay here are a few thoughts for you first of all the general overview is it's really useful to understand what's going on and I call this understanding and befriending our nervous systems because what's happening at the moment what's actually happening when you wake up anxious is your nervous system is going into high alert so the one thing we don't want to do is fall out of friendship with our nervous system because we want to help it come down from high alert it's very useful to recognize when we're on high alert and say this is my nervous system activated so that we also it's also very useful to notice when you're feeling peaceful and relaxed to say this is what my nervous system feels down when it feels like when it comes down and even the process of unwinding and coming down as well as the relaxed state so then you've got knowledge about your nervous system and then you're befriending it by saying both these nervous systems have wonderful wonderful reasons for being there neither of them is bad but we do need to spend time in each of them during my days I need to spend time resting and digesting and time in action getting my meaningful things done in my life and be able to have a checklist at the end of the day so that you know if it's been a very stressful day maybe you need to take a walk maybe you'd need to do some yoga or meditation maybe you need to watch something really funny on TV that makes you laugh and release maybe you need to talk to your partner or a friend or you know snuggle up to your pet or all things you know rebalance you you might have a craft or a hobby that you like to do that takes you into that those better feelings befriending our nervous system means understanding its messages are there really to tell us that we need to create some space we need to take some action we need to help it come back into balance and befriended such an important word to use and an attitude to have because when we are experiencing these things you know when our bodies are at this giving us this level of discomfort and distress of being activated anxious for long periods of time and stealing our sleep we can actually begin to really fall out a favor with them fall out of friendship with them and think it's a bad body and it's a bad mind that we have and that we're being victimized by ourselves it's important instead just to say no this is my nervous system asking for balance and also if you can't come back into balance say this isn't going to come I'm not going to come into any harm you're not going to come to any harm anxiety has a pattern it builds up it spikes and it comes down and it will come down in nine out of ten cases there are cases where you get stuck on so much an anxiety and of course always seek medical advice always get professional help people who are really know how to help you and don't don't struggle on your own but in general everybody feels anxiety and anxiety has this kind of cycle so once you're coming in and being friendly to yourself and not giving yourself a harm time hard time you can label it for what it is you can name it without shaming it you can wake up and just say oh this is this is that some anxiety arising in my body and then you can go to your comforting and encouraging tools you can add comforting thoughts like it's not just me like I said earlier it's not just me who experiences this I'm probably sitting up right now with a whole lot of other people I don't see them but I'm in a community with them they're with me we're together feeling these things we can add thoughts that challenge the anxiety instead of thoughts that spiral it and make it worse so a thought these sorts of thoughts are things like just because I feel this way doesn't mean anything's wrong or that I'm in harm or in danger I'm perfectly safe and if you know you're someone who's been in danger or at harm in the past and that you're revisiting that you can say I'm safe now here and now I'm safe and then you can add to that orientating to that safety you can say when I feel safe what in my body informs me my I'm safe and you can look around the room you're in what in my room in my present moment feel safe to me is telling me I'm safe and you might have lovely things in your room pictures of people who love you the Sun coming in through the window the early Sun things that you delight in choose something slowly move your visual field around those things and just say I'm safe now I'm safe now everything's okay now we talk in meditation about our resourced state our okayness state that's the state in which we feel safe and at home and we have access to pleasure things feel pleasurable joyful and as an element of thrill and adventure we feel we can take some risks we like the adrenaline state I call this our state of grace the feeling of being safe and happy to be alive or thrilled to be alive everyone has a state in which they feel in touch with their resources their resource state their okayness it's worth noticing what yours are but one thing to avoid stressing about your sleep and is to avoid stressing about your sleep anxiety cycle just surrender to it say I'm going to feel like this sometimes because by doing this you're tapping into a resource state of okayness you're saying it's okay to feel like this and and that's a resource state and that itself helps bring your anxiety down you can say when you go to bed I might wake up anxious tomorrow but that's okay you can add to that I've got some tools I can use you're reducing the sense of danger you're reducing the sense that you're being irreversibly harmed which is not true by doing this same as adding the words it's not my fault that takes a whole level of pressure off I am not bad I'm not mad I'm not weird and a vast number of people are experiencing this I'm not alone you might even add there are reasons I'm feeling activated right now my life is full-on you know of course I am this is natural as a natural response from my body and you might say even though I'm feeling anxious I will be okay and even though this morning I'm feeling anxious I don't have to feel like this all day if you have a particular anxiety which could be that you think you're not getting enough rest and relaxation you're worried about the impact on your health which can be can be something people have please know that the rest you get your body gets does not all depend on your night's sleep there are many ways of getting rest you'd be surprised how many little rests you can take through the day how many little rest states your body can have just times where you take a pause and feel the stress in your body but don't act on it and feel it coming down our healthy resting states meditation which which is does do that for you is a healthy resting state sitting and reading a book watching something on television sharing a meal with your friends or your family doing the gardening there are lots of things we do while we're kind of well while we're awake and alert we're also getting rest back from them so don't make it all depend on your night's sleep and always remember to add those thoughts that challenge the anxiety just because I feel this way doesn't mean anything's wrong or that I'm in harm or danger I'm perfectly safe and then you can move on to actual things to do once you've comforted yourself once you've challenged the thoughts once you stop the spiraling or aspects of the spiraling in some way you can bring in breathing techniques I mentioned that technique of really being present with the safety you have now and with the good things in the room you can find good things in your body by just settling into some long deep breaths when we're anxious we tend to breathe in our upper chest and in our upper chest we have more stimuli there for anxiety for the stress state for sympathetic nervous system the lower down we breathe our lower chest it lower down our diaphragm we have more stimuli for the processes of feeling peaceful so just knowing that's helpful and you can take hands to your belly when you breathe and begin to feel how you can breathe further down take your breath further down by taking drawing in a long deep breath and feeling your belly expand under your hands and then relax down again as you breathe out and it's a nice way to add to those thoughts that I mentioned earlier to breathe that way while you have those thoughts sometimes people say just breathe a relaxing breath but you can breathe these breaths and still still sort of be in your head so really take yourself into your body I think using your hands is good maybe one hand on your heart one on your belly even one hand on your forehead one on your belly bring your mind down further down grounding and then adding those thoughts it's not just me it's not my fault I'm not in any danger I'm not at harm nothing's wrong I'm safe I may feel uncomfortable but that's okay and then you can maybe give your brain another focus and for some people that means you know don't stay in bed trying to get back to sleep you could make some rituals that you actually look forward to since I'm awake early I'm going to do such-and-such you know maybe have a list by your bed because I'm very anxious we often don't aren't able to get present with clear thinking and I think it's really helpful to have these resources written down what can I do right now and you can make yourself a lovely cup of tea and go outside and watch the sunrise you could all sit at your window and watch the sunrise you could write a letter to a friend you could tick something off your to-do list but as you do it do it with love so whatever it is you're doing choose something that you can do that gives you some enjoyment even the tiniest bit rather than something that causes you stress that's very important you're adding resource state here you're adding okayness it's okay I'm awake early do you know what finally I can trim my bonsai that's what I do like never trim it otherwise I'm not looking after that poor guy or whatever the things take your dog for a walk you know so write a list and have that to hand you don't have to stay in bed you could do some stretching some yoga some grounding meditation anything grounding is very good being outside in nature being with trees anything grounding can be just so helpful moving you know anxiety loves to move so again Tai Chi movement meditation yoga slow movements or a walk where you're really taking in your surroundings and then you might begin to look forward to waking up early because you associate it with feeling good these things will help you feel better another thing you can do is record a pep talk you can play for yourself upon waking so when you're feeling good this is something I do when I'm feeling really good I talk to myself about it I talk about what the feeling is and how I'm feeling it what it feels like and how I got to that feeling it's a little pep talk you know or I just you know it's encouraging like so if you're feeling down remember this and remember this and remember this as if you're talking to yourself in the way a friend would and then just record it on your phone and then you can switch it on listen to it and because it's your own voice you're much more likely to embody it you know I record guided meditations for people and I support them but it's my voice and it's very profound hearing your own voice sounding calm sounding happy sounding at peace and at one with whatever's going on you don't have to fake that there will be times in your life you feel that way what a great time to do the pep talk record recording have a serious have a playlist for yourself there are other methods of self soothing our bodies love touch there are lovely ways of holding ourselves stroking ourselves massaging in good feelings and good thoughts again as you have thoughts that are good the thoughts you really need to hear from yourself the reminders you as well as breath you can add touches if you're massaging these thoughts into your body there's a very good technique called pendulating in somatic healing and that also in the innate meditation style that I use which is realizing you can be feel two things at the same time you can feel worried and anxious and you can also feel like you're resourced and it's going to be okay and the pendulating really means allow yourself to feel the anxiety for a moment and then allow yourself to feel the okayness just as if you've got a pendulum inside you swinging and on the one side of your heart there's anxiety on the other heart there's truth and reality that you're okay and it's going to be okay and the support and all the things that support you and allow it to swing and a lot of people feel this gives them this rhythm allows them to kind of drift off a bit daydream relax and sometimes go back to sleep we also need to think about what we're doing during the daytimes that are building anxiety up and what we're doing to help clear that backlog of stress we all build up stress during the day stressful thoughts stressful experiences and we all have natural systems in our body kind of natural meditation really that allow that stress to unwind and we can collaborate with that you know we know that exercise is really healthy for clearing stress sitting down and writing to-do lists clearing a shelf talking to a friend pleasure having fun enjoying ourselves taking a bath all the things you know that are de-stressing daydreaming looking out the window really really savoring a lovely drink a lovely bite of something to eat we know these things flood our bodies with feelings of peace and pleasure again have a checklist if you're on an emergency button all the time you may have lost touch with how rarely you're doing these things but people do talk about not experiencing any joy from things anymore that can be because you've got out of the practice of inviting joy into your life so have a list and even at first you have to do it as a discipline the discipline of bringing joy and pleasure and rest back into your life in little micro moments it's very powerful for your overall sense of well-being and restedness and natural healthy alertness and clarity I also suggest using meditations that purposefully familiarize yourself with safety because anxiety is usually about not feeling safe and if you can find time just to hang out with yourself and create sense of safety I'm safe I'm supported I am loved feel yourself safely held by the earth safely surrounded by welcoming space your own space and breathing these breaths of safety these deep down breaths keep us feeling grounded and steady but then that can be very helpful in familiarizing yourself with what it feels like to be safe because what can happen is we've we're on this kind of emergency button and high alert more than we should be to be in balance we can actually forgets like a muscle when we're not using we can weaken our resource state of feeling safe feeling at home feeling at ease and one of the ways that we can also help ourselves with that is look at the stories we're telling ourselves that might be giving us anxiety maybe they're about productivity and perfection that we have to get everything right we can't make mistakes everybody has to be happy everybody has to be pleased with ourselves with us we've got to produce a lot we've got to give a lot are we demanding too much of ourselves are you demanding too much of yourselves are you are you bullying yourself are you being hard on yourself is it you who's provoking your anxiety in which case don't beat yourself up for it forgive yourself but watch that and see where you can give yourself more peace and that can be shifting or letting go of some stories about shoulds and musts in your life remember also that a particular trigger or fear might have come up for you that's activated this anxiety perhaps you're about to start a new job you've got a big project you have to deliver you've got an interview coming up or there's a relationship you're concerned about you're worried if you're being abandoned certain nerves and you're being untouched then you can go directly to what's being touched the part of you that feels afraid or alone confused and sooth and help that part feel better for example if I don't get this job with this job interview I'll get another one or I'll be more productive if I take some breaks and it doesn't have to be perfect and making mistakes is what every human is meant to do and if you're worried about a relationship you can talk to the person or get again help and support from people who can help you look at your thoughts and feelings and the way you might be programming yourself for more stress do explore and create your own self-care toolkit I've given you a number of different aspects related to welcoming yourself not being dark or down on yourself about anxiety self soothing using thoughts which are truths and words towards yourself using actions your breath massage meditation where you help yourself feel safe orientation where you look around and allow your body to orientate physically towards embodied safety processing your backlog of stress during the day making sure you get enough little micro moments and breaks as well as some bigger moments where you're feeling relaxed and at home with yourself shifting your focus doing something else that is nice with this time when you wake up and being careful of how you might add to cycles of stress by the kind of ways you're looking at life thinking about life and then watching things like the obvious things like your diet whether you've got enough calories in you when you go to sleep or whether you've got a heavy meal a stimulation too much stimulation before bed all the things that we teach our children you can listen to relaxations you can listen to music there are all sorts of things you can do to bring yourself down off emergency before bed have a bath and then there are good things for blood sugar like magnesium supplements and they're good for relaxing our body there are all sorts of herbs and oils that you can learn about that you can use remedies for sleep all these things are available to you don't have to suffer from the word go you don't have to suffer even if you are feeling discomfort and you can shift that discomfort I really believe in you and I've been in this situation myself and I expect to come back to every now and again but each time I come back these periods are shorter in my life because I now know kind of what not to do as well as what to do so go ahead and explore and let me know how you get on bye for now

Reviews

Lots of great info and a very supportive talk.
Thank you

This was very thorough and had a lot of good information and tips. I wrote myself a note when I'm feeling well that I can read if I wake up anxious ("You are safe. You don't need to do anything right now but rest. Etc") but I like the idea of recording my voice talking to myself. I'm going to try that. Thank you!

Alison, thank you for helping cope with my morning anxiely.. Your voice is very calming. I felt like you were an old friend easing my thoughts. I am feeling less anxious and i am very grateful. I will definitely come back to this talk in my anxious mornings, which happens often.
I feel blessed that I found you this morning 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and calm. I appreciate you in the evening, in the middle of the night and now in the morning. I feel hopeful. Thank you.

Thank you. I feel so seen, and validated—re: how I feel, what’s happening, and what I’m already doing.

Recommend to listen to anyone who wants to address morning anxiety! A very useful guide

Thank you so much! That was chock-full of extremely useful and practical information. Absolutely life-changing!

This is an excellent tool to help. Reduce anxiety and waking up feeling very stressed. She covers mini aspects of stress and measures to take. We know many of these things already, but don’t always reach for these tools when we need them.

Thank you for such a soothing talk. It felt like I was in the presence of a kind, wise friend who cared about me

Really lovely. Lots of great ideas. A caring and soothing voice

This was great and so are you! It’s time for me to be kinder to myself.
Thank you! Gbless you.
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This was amazing and has helped me this morning immensely! Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤️

Thank you for sharing this helpful information. I’ve been experiencing morning anxiety and it’s not fun! My new go to for validation and motivation to try different things to help. Namaste 🙏

Very useful!!!!

Brilliant thank you 🙏

That was super insightful and a fantastic listen! I’m definitely going to take on board many of the suggested strategies- they were super helpful!

This has been so much helpful with lots of good tips. Much thanks for this wonderful share. 🙏🏻🌹

Excellent, I’m so nurvous about everything as I’m turning very hill.

A free therapy session!!! So much information and thank you for reminding me I’m not alone and I’m not crazy!!!! I really needed this. Exactly what I’m going through. THANK YOU TIMES A MILLION!!!

Wonderful thought out talk. Very thorough, supportive and helpful.