Managing Anxiety Like A Badass

Anita Sanz
4 min readMar 7, 2017

The most commonly suggested way to manage anxiety is to calm the nervous system by using diaphragmatic breathing. By breathing deeply, you are physically behaving in a way that sends a message to the brain that you must not actually be in any danger, so it will kick into relaxation mode instead of fight-or-flight mode.

But I’m going to suggest another effective way to manage anxiety: Convince the part of your

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Anita Sanz

Psychologist. Giving Voice to Depression Podcast Co-host.