Befriending Anxiety: Transforming Anxiety Into Self Trust

In this episode of The Empowered Adoptee Podcast, we explore how befriending our anxiety can help us navigate the adoptee journey with more ease and self-compassion. Instead of seeing anxiety as something to fix or get rid of, we discuss how it can actually be a protector, a messenger, and even a guide to deeper self-awareness.

We dive into how anxiety often shows up in the adoptee experience—whether through hypervigilance, perfectionism, or fear of rejection—and how we can shift our relationship with it. By learning to listen to our anxiety with curiosity rather than fear, we can transform it into intuition and inner wisdom that supports our well-being and balance.

Join us as we discuss:

• Why anxiety is so common in the adoptee experience.
• How anxiety can act as both a protector and a guide.
• Practical tools to regulate anxiety.
• Reframing anxious thoughts and creating a sense of inner safety.
• How self-compassion helps us move from fear to trust.

Tune in as we explore how embracing our anxiety, rather than resisting it, can bring us closer to healing, self-trust, and a deeper connection to ourselves.

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April 25-28 in Lake Tahoe, CA 

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June 22 - 24 in Atlanta, GA

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July 17 - 19 in Reisterstown, MD

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