Jared Pickett

Feeling Anxious? Try These 3 Techniques Written by Jared 1. What Situations Do You Feel Anxious? When do you feel anxiety? • At the supermarket? • Driving on a busy road? • When you see Ronald, your old coworker? Knowing when you feel anxious can help you plan how you’ll deal with it Action: What situations do you feel anxious in? 2. Feeling Anxious? Use The Window Breathing Technique Step 1: Find a window (or anything that’s a rectangle) and look at the top left corner Step 2: Breath in and look to the right Step 3: Breath out and look down Step 4: Breath in and look to the left Step 5: Breath out and look up Step 6: Repeat 4 times 3. Don’t Avoid Anxious Situations Avoidance grows anxiety. It’s easy to talk ourselves into avoiding situations that make us anxious. We say no to the party, or get Uber Eats instead of going to the restaurants. But this can grow our anxiety until someday the thought of going to that party feels overwhelming Sometimes a little anxiety in the short term can save you a lot of anxiety in the long term