Will Craig

You're like, hey, I noticed I wrote about a similar feeling a couple days ago, or I experienced heightened anxiety around these people a couple weeks ago.

You start spotting those trends because you're taking note, you're taking a catalog of it, you're being mindful with that.

So journaling, number one, has got to be my best and most useful thing.

Second one being

I would actually breath work has become a really big part of how I operate in managing my anxiety, you know, taking the moments to pause and there's a few different strategies you can deploy.

So I think everyone should find the one that works best for them, but really dive into like breath work and the idea of understanding and getting your body better aligned from a breathing perspective, because especially if you're someone who deals with anxiety, that shallowness of breath can be debilitating and it makes all your decision making that much worse.

So those are my two big ones.

Yeah, I love it.

So the journal for me, so going back to what we talked about with the blogging, all of this has been, whether it's writing a blog, making videos, writing a book, writing a journal, all of it has just been starting a podcast.

All of it has just been amalgamation of the same mission of making people feel less alone in that sense.

So the latest edition of that is my journal.

And the journal came to me because when I was starting in therapy for the first time, I'll be honest,

Clearly I have no problem talking, but when I sat down in the therapist's office, I had no idea what to say.

I had just lost my, my girlfriend who died unexpectedly and I didn't know what the hell to say.

And so I would sit there and I'm wondering how do I even begin to process this?

And it was my therapist who actually said, Hey, you love writing.

How about in between sessions, you just write letters to her, write letters to, you know,

Anything that can happen, write a letter to your future self, whatever the case may be, and gave me prompts.

And then I started coming up with stuff on my own and then that's how I processed my thoughts.

And then that way I could come to therapy more prepared to better tackle my demons.