Breathe: The Stress Less Podcast

Breathe: The Stress Less Podcast

Bonnie Gray

Coping with Anxiety from Traumatic Events (like the Nashville Shooting) #66

April 10, 2023   ●   29 min

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When the news is so discouraging and traumatic events trigger anxiety, how do we cope? As you scroll through news stories, you are absorbing stress and triggering anxiety.

As people of faith, how can we release the stress and still live in this world? We don’t live in a bubble - where we are Pollyanna and “everything is fine” - yet we don’t want to run around like the “The sky is falling."

Soul Care coach Bonnie answers, “Where is that balance? Where is that godly response & perspective?” This episode will help you to learn scientific tips based on scripture to help ease anxiety.

Learn to:

  • Why reading the news triggers the body’s stress response
  • How to practice the power of listening & being present even when you feel fear
  • 3 Ways to respond to discouraging news based on scripture & science to create a shield to guard against anxiety: sharing kindness, helping someone, and smile
  • How to lower the stress hormone cortisol and release calming hormone serotonin to stop the panic
  • How do we respond to discouraging news?
  • Breath Prayer: Inhale: When I pass through the waters. Exhale: You will be with me.
  • The Power of Gaze

Scripture: “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed (2 Cor.4:7-9).

Soul Care Tip: 5 practices: Show Kindness, Help Someone, Smile, The Gaze, In-Person Get-togethers

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