Many people living with anxiety aren’t just battling fear. They’re also carrying shame.

Not the kind that’s loud or dramatic. It shows up in small moments: needing reassurance, avoiding plans, leaning on someone just to feel okay – and then judging yourself for all of it. You start wondering if you’ve become too dependent and have changed too much from who you used to be.

This episode talks about where anxiety ends and shame begins to take over. Through one person’s story, it breaks down how quickly emotional survival can feel like personal failure, and how easily the brain turns symptoms into self-criticism.

It’s not about positive thinking. It’s about recognizing what’s actually happening in the body and learning a different way to respond – one that doesn’t involve constant resistance or self-editing.

Shame tells you to hide. This episode tells you something else. Tune in and find out what.

(This is an AI-generated episode inspired by my YouTube videos. I personally moderate these to share insights more efficiently, keeping the content informative yet completely free.)

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction (00:00)
• Anxiety brings deep shame and feelings of burden (00:26)
• Shame is often a symptom, not a truth (03:24)
• Avoiding emotions makes recovery harder (05:01)
• Vulnerability, when authentic, becomes empowering (08:53)
• Emotional mastery creates lifelong resilience (12:20)

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Most people think anxiety is caused by the symptoms themselves – the racing heart, the brain fog, the tight chest... That actually feels obvious: if the symptoms stop, the anxiety ends.

That’s what I used to think. So I did what anyone would do – I focused on the sensations. Tried to figure them out, fix them, and make them go away.

But they didn’t. In fact, the more I focused, the worse they got. Because the real fuel behind anxiety is your focus – and the meaning you attach to what you feel. (That’s something I realized a bit later.)

In this episode, I’ll walk you through a quick 2-minute experiment. First, you’ll see how focusing on a symptom makes it grow. Then, you’ll see how shifting the meaning around it makes the panic start to fade.

Once you see the cycle clearly, something in you softens. The sensations may still be there, but the fear around them disappears – and that’s when your body finally gets the chance to burn off the adrenaline and heal.

It only takes two minutes. Try it with me.

Key Takeaways:

• Intro (00:00)
• Logical problem-solving doesn’t work for anxiety (00:40)
• Focus amplifies perceived danger (01:52)
• Thought experiment: hyper-focusing worsens the symptom (02:50)
• Your brain fills gaps with fear-based meaning (03:53)
• Thought experiment: reframing the symptom as harmless (05:51)
• Symptoms are your body burning off adrenaline (08:12)

Additional Resources:

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Almost everyone on the recovery journey has that one symptom. The stubborn one. The one that convinces you: “OK, sure, maybe the other symptoms are anxiety… but not this one.”

Maybe it’s burning nerve pain, dizziness that never ends, heart palpitations, or bizarre itching. You throw it under the anxiety umbrella for a while… but it still shows up. And your brain whispers:

“What if this one is different?"

"What if this one never goes away?”

I get it. Mine were digestive issues.

I could accept the panic and racing thoughts as anxiety. But the bloating, nausea, food reactions felt too real. I tried cleanses, diets, supplements, everything I’d heard of… but nothing worked.

What actually changed things was understanding that my nervous system was hypersensitized. And that everything I was feeling was coming from that one place.

In this episode, I’m sharing why isolating that one stubborn symptom keeps you stuck and how putting everything under the anxiety umbrella is where real healing begins.

Believe me, you're not broken. What feels stuck is your body doing its best to protect you.

🎧 Tune in and learn how to stop fearing the symptom… and start truly healing.

Key Takeaways:

• Introduction (00:00)
• Everyone isolates one bizarre symptom – Shaan's was digestion (01:09)
• Symptoms stem from a hypersensitive nervous system (02:18)
• Stop treating symptoms as separate problems (03:24)
• Use the ALARM method for stubborn symptoms (05:32)
• The “Five Fs” amplify anxiety responses (06:51)

Additional Resources:

➡️ To accelerate your recovery journey, book a call to see if the mentorship with Shaan's team will help your specific situation

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