Episode 24 - Anxiety
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When you’ve spent years under spiritual surveillance — constantly monitored for worthiness, obedience, and purity — your nervous system learns to stay on high alert. Even when you leave that system, your body doesn’t automatically feel safe. Freedom can actually feel threatening.
In this episode, we explore what anxiety really is: not a moral failure or a lack of faith, but a natural response from a body that’s been trained to survive under pressure. You’ll learn how to distinguish between real danger and emotional stretching, how to gently observe your anxiety without becoming it, and how art can help calm an overactive nervous system.
In This Episode:
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How living under constant scrutiny wires your body for hyper-vigilance
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The difference between fear (a signal of danger) and anxiety (a signal of growth)
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How observation itself begins to change your emotional experience
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Simple ways to use art as a nervous system regulator
Links & Resources:
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Download your free Anxiety-Reducing Art Prompts PDF
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Sign up for Sunday Muse to receive weekly creative healing prompts
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Follow me on Instagram: @mormontomuse
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Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: Mormon to Muse
The Gift of Fear, Gavin Debecker
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anxiety/the-causes-of-anxiety
While this isn’t art therapy, and I’m not a licensed therapist, these creative exercises have been powerful tools for healing in my own life and in the lives of women I work with
