Joanne Smith teaches how to talk yourself down from anxiety spikes by recognizing your brain's false alarm, grounding yourself in your actual surroundings, and gently returning to what you were doing. The key is balance: use simple techniques without getting stuck in reassurance loops.
When, when I say when, because it's highly likely that your symptoms will spike or they will go up and they will get worse or, you know, they will flare, whatever word you want to use. Um, you don't need to go on an expedition hunting and figuring out what you've done wrong because you know what's happened. You know that your brain is just sensing something as a danger and you know that you can just be like, oh hey, well, that's fine. I'm not bothered. I know what this is, and I know that I can choose to respond in a calm way now. I don't need to panic because nothing dangerous is happening. I can physically look around the room and be like, yeah, there's nothing scary here, there's nothing going on. And you can actually coach yourself to reassure yourself that you understand and you know what's going on, nothing dangerous is happening. And then you can shift your attention back to whatever you're doing, back to your life, you know, you don't have to be doing this all day every day because again, that's going to be weird, it's going to be like, what on earth is Jo doing, why is she continuously reassuring herself, why is she, you know, get the balance with the amount of coaching that you're willing to pay yourself for. You know, save yourself a little bit of a fortune and coach yourself, because many people get very, very good results without spending a penny, literally, with all the free resources and all the help that's out there.
