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how to deal with anxiety · feel your feelings with Ethan Jewell

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  Have you ever felt stressed worried or anxious for
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  seemingly? No reason.
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  Do you often feel overrun by anxious thoughts?
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  I know I certainly do at times. It feels like, anxiety is
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  attempting to control my life. It's difficult to deal with, and
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  at times can feel overwhelming or impossible with the best
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  thing we can do is stay informed and learn about the mental
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  difficulties that we face. So today, let's talk about
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  anxiety, talk about what causes it and what we can do, did Deal
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  with it. My name is Ethan Jewell and
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  welcome back to feel your feelings.
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  I personally have struggled with anxiety for a very, very long
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  time regularly. And by regularly, I mean, almost
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  every day I find myself stressing or worrying about the
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  future or money, or my job, or what I'll be doing in the next
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  few years or how my relationships are.
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  If my friends like me etc, etc. Or sometimes I just get an
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  anxious feeling in my chest for seemingly.
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  No reason. My chest gets tight, my
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  breathing gets fast my heartbeat speeds up and I just feel
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  Stressed anxiety is a very, very difficult thing to deal with and
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  it is incredibly common, according to a UC Davis health
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  study, one in three adults will be affected by an anxiety
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  disorder at some point in their life.
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  So if you have experienced anxiety, if you believe you are
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  experiencing anxiety, or you just want to learn more about
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  anxiety, You are not alone. This is a very, very common
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  disorder and a very common feeling That people deal with
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  and one of the best things that we can do about difficult,
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  things is to understand them. Anxiety can be caused by a
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  multitude of reasons. It's up to you, to identify your
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  own personal triggers. It could be caused from stress,
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  physical health, issues, exhaustion and burnout pressure,
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  loneliness, abuse, or it? Can come alongside other mental
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  problems, such as depression. Depression, and anxiety are very
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  often. Hand-in-hand feelings of
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  depression can lead to anxiety feelings of anxiety.
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  Lead to depression. It can often be a vicious
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  vicious cycle. Anxiety, can just be a general
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  feeling or a diagnosable disorder such as generalized
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  anxiety disorder. This is essentially when we feel
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  worried fear dread or anxiety for seemingly no reason.
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  So although, yes, anxiety can be caused by stress physical
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  health, issues, ETC. Etc.
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  It also can simply exist in manifest within the body for no
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  reason. You may have is this before you
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  may have felt just you know a tight chest or worried for
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  literally, no reason, maybe you stay up at night, unable to
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  sleep. Just worrying about your life
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  that could potentially be anxiety.
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  Now, I'd like to take a moment to remind you.
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  I am not a mental health. Professional, I'm not a licensed
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  psychiatrist or a therapist. I'm just a normal guy and I've
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  experienced anxiety and I wanted to talk about it.
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  So please take this with a grain of salt and take this as an
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  opportunity to educate yourself about anxiety.
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  And potentially seek professional help because
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  anxiety is real. It is a real issue.
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  I feel like it often gets kind of overlooked or overseen.
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  I feel like it's a lot more serious than people give it
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  credit for. I hear people all the time, just
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  saying, oh, you know, I'm just a little bit anxious.
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  I just feel anxious a lot. It's no big deal.
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  I think it's a very big deal. I think anxiety can be
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  overwhelming to a point that it prohibits you, from living a
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  normal life. When we Experience anxiety, our
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  body releases stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
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  These cause the physical symptoms of anxiety, such as
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  increased heart, rate trouble, focusing sweating, and breathing
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  problems. This is already a lot, but on
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  top of that anxiety, also causes mental issues.
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  It causes unnecessary, worry. It makes it difficult to think
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  straight, it can make it hard to weigh the pros and cons of a
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  situation and make decisions. This is a lot.
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  It can It nearly impossible to function.
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  It makes it difficult to maintain relationships because
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  we get so caught up in our own thoughts about what other people
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  think of us. It can make it nearly impossible
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  to pursue our goals anxiety is a real issue and I believe it is
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  important that we treated as such.
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  It isn't just a feeling that should be normalized, it should
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  be taken seriously and treated in a professional way, it should
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  be treated with patience and care, it should be treated as
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  the series. He's issue that it is.
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  I've struggled with anxiety extensively and I know how
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  difficult it can be. I find myself doubting myself
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  almost every single day and that makes it really difficult as I
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  work for myself, I make music and I do this podcast and I find
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  myself questioning whether or not I'm doing the right thing,
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  whether or not, I'm actually helping people whether or not,
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  this is my path at all. I find myself questioning that
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  and getting anxious about it almost every single day.
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  And it's so hard anxiety, can make you question yourself and
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  your worth at its core. It's not just a disorder that
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  causes you to worry know. It can make you question Your
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  Existence as a whole and I know that sounds so dramatic and it
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  sounds like I'm over-exaggerating but if you've
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  experienced anxiety you know how difficult it can be?
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  You know how completely incapacitating anxiety can be.
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  So now that we've identified what anxiety is why we feel it.
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  It and how incredibly difficult it can be.
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  Let's talk about a few Solutions, a few potential
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  solutions to our anxiety. Once again, I'm not a
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  professional. This is simply.
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  What has helped me? So anxiety is often caused by
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  stress or other physical issues in our life, whether it's work
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  school or General Life. Worry stress, almost always
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  causes anxiety symptoms. It's one of the biggest causes
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  of anxiety. So one of the best things we can
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  do is try to reduce the amount. Mount of stressful feelings in
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  our lives. The best stress reducer I found
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  is physical movement working out in some way.
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  And I don't mean you need to lock into a six day a week gym
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  routine. I don't mean you need to start
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  spending hours and hours a day in the gym.
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  I mean, you simply need to physically move our physical,
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  and mental health is incredibly closely related.
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  And a lot of people don't realize.
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  This movement is one of the best stress reducers that we have
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  access to. Simply going for a walk.
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  Can clear your head instantaneously.
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  That's why you always hero. If you're if you're stressed or
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  you're worried, go for a walk, clear your head.
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  That's true. It's not just an old saying,
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  moving getting fresh air getting Outdoors.
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  Stretching your body out, whatever it is, it massively
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  helps reduce stress. And in that same vein helps
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  reduce anxiety in the same way, sleep helps reduce anxiety.
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  We always hero. You have a difficult decision or
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  you're stressed about a decision or you're just stressed about
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  something you should. Sleep on it.
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  That also isn't just a saying it's important to get an
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  adequate amount of sleep in order for us to function,
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  without having a lot of stress. Sleep is a incredible stress
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  reducer so if you're struggling with anxiety, consider
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  attempting to prioritize sleep, as much as possible, even if it
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  means canceling on plans or not watching another episode of a
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  Netflix show, or whatever it is, sleep and yourself and your own
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  physical health, should be a priority.
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  T, our physical health can have a massive role in how anxiety
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  Works within our bodies if we are able to stay active and get
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  good sleep, that alone can help. So, so, so much with anxious
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  feelings. However, there's only so much
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  that that can do against say, anxiety, disorders.
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  I don't want to invalidate anxiety disorders by saying that
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  you can completely solve or cure them by simply going on walks.
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  So, some other things we can do is identifying our triggers.
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  And if I what makes you anxious identify what makes you worried
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  and try your best to avoid those triggers and if they can't be
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  avoided, learn coping strategies to deal with and overcome them.
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  A therapist is an amazing asset when it comes to dealing with
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  anxiety as they are a professional.
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  Who can teach you coping strategies?
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  There's so many amazing and affordable therapy options.
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  So, please search for some around you.
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  If you're struggling with feelings of anxiety.
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  In the meantime, I recommend I'm keeping a journal or talking to
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  somebody, it can help relieve stress to Simply get things out
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  to get our stressful feelings. Out of our system.
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  Anxiety, is a real and difficult issue.
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  If you are experiencing it, I want you to know, you are not
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  alone and help is available. I encourage you to seek
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  professional help or at the very least research and find what can
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  help you learn your triggers. Learn how to deal.
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  Them take care of your body, take care of your mind, you
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  deserve that you deserve to live a life.
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  Without, as much worry, you deserve to have less anxiety in
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  your plate. You deserve to wake up in the
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  morning and feel like you can breathe easily, I believe in you
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  and together, we can overcome anxiety.
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  That's going to wrap it up for today's episode.
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  Thank you so much for being here.
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  If you need help, feeling your feelings, go check out my music
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  on all Platforms under the name of Ethan Jewel also shoot me a
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  message on my Instagram at Jewel, boy underscore.
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  And let me know what you thought about today's episode.
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  Thank you so much for being here.
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  Thank you for understanding your own anxiety.
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  And as always, thank you for feeling your feelings.
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  I'll see you next time.