497 13 Sassy things to say to anxiety (Non Engagement Responses)

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  If you're someone with anxiety, it is so easy to fall for the tricks of your intrusive thoughts or those fears.

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  You might notice that you have them.

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  They come, they seed a tiny bit of uncertainty and doubt into your mind.

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  And before you know it, you have spent hours ruminating, checking, avoiding, asking for reassurance.

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  So what we're going to do today is I am going to give you my 13 favorite sassy responses to anxiety.

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  We actually call these non-engagement responses and I cannot wait to share them with you.

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  Okay, so let's set the scene.

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  You have anxiety.

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  You've had an intrusive thought, an unwanted thought.

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  Maybe you have this feeling coming over you and you feel like it's so important.

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  It's so real that you have to give it your attention.

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  But We know that giving it our attention is only going to make things worse.

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  Giving our attention is going to reinforce the fear.

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  It's going to increase our anxiety.

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  It's going to increase the distress that we feel.

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  And so we don't want to do that.

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  A whole part of the work that I teach is to help you not engage with your thoughts

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  and to respond in a way that is effective and kind and helpful and actually makes you feel more in control.

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  And more confident in yourself.

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  So here are 13 different ways that we can respond.

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