The Wisdom of Anxiety with Sarie Taylor

The wisdom of the feelings in our bodies is so misunderstood. Today coach Sarie Taylor and I discuss how we can see the signals we feel for what they are and how they can help us navigate life. We don’t need to be afraid of being afraid.Many years ago Sarie Taylor found herself very unexpectedly going from studying at university and travelling the world, to being unable to leave the house, ultimately ending up being hospitalised with generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder as well as depression. However, once she stumbled across the three principles her relationship with anxiety was transformed.You can find Sarie Taylor at WorldWideWellBeing.co.uk and on Instagram @sarietaylorcoaching.You can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* From travelling the world to not being able to leave the house * How we fight the experience of being human * How aiming to be average is more than enough * How we are always feeling our thoughts * Being in our heads or in our lives * On anxiety being the fear of being anxious * On future thinking and how it can be worse than the anxiety we expeirence * How intrusive thoughts can be a signal that we need more sleep or we’re just in a low moodResources Mentioned in this Episode* Dr. Bill PettitTranscript of Interview with Sarie TaylorAlexandra: Sarie Taylor, welcome to Unbroken.Sarie: Thank you for having me.Alexandra: It’s lovely to have you here. Give us a little bit about your background and how you found the Three Principles.Sarie: Okay, so have to dig deep for this because it feels like all of the lifetime ago. When I was in my early 20s, I didn’t realize I was anxious, but I was very anxious. And I’d kind of been ignoring it. If people would have met me in my 20s, I would have said, Oh, you’re super confident, like more confident than most. But actually, deep down, I really wasn’t. But I pretended to be a lot.It eventually caught up with me in my early 20s, and I ended up going from having been to university, traveled the world with my now husband and ending up within a space of two weeks not being able to actually physically leave the house with such severe anxiety. That then escalated from me not being able to leave the house to me not allowing my mom to leave the house, because I needed her there.It regressed massively, to the point where she’d go to the local shops for a loaf of bread, and I’d have to go with her in the car. And I’d just cry the whole time in a panic when she was in the local store. And this is like I say, I had traveled the world at this point was a big shock out and I had no idea what was happening. Eventually, I pretty much begged the doctor to send me somewhere. I think my main driver for wanting to go into a mental hospital, or whatever you want to call it is because I wanted my mom to get some respite because I was very aware that she was a prisoner in her own home too. And I didn’t know how I was going to get out of it or change it.So I spent a month in hospital, I was very heavily medicated. There was not really a medication that I wasn’t on. I was on a concoction of many, many different things. I came out of there after a month feeling, to be fair, quite chilled, but I would defy anybody who’s on not on beta blockers, diazepam and antidepressants all at once on the highest possible doses not to feel quite cheerful. But I was still frightened underneath and thinking what on earth do I do now? How do I get off these?I was younger and wanting to have children,