How to use your anxiety to your advantage

Anxiety and other mental health disorders affect millions of people around the world, and the situation has worsened with the pandemic.

Some of the symptoms that manifest with anxiety are:

* Feeling restless, wound-up, or on-edge.
* Being easily fatigued.
* Having difficulty concentrating; mind going blank.
* Being irritable.
* Having muscle tension.
* Difficulty controlling feelings of worry.
* Having sleep problems, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, restlessness, or unsatisfying sleep.
* Having a sense of impending danger, panic or doom

Living with these can be exhausting, frustrating, and painful, while frequent anxiety symptoms may be robbing you of sleep, joy, and/or confidence.

However, there is much you can learn and benefit from when it comes to understanding anxiety. In fact, anxiety can work to your advantage in some significant ways. Identifying anxiety and exploring how you relate to it may help you uncover some of your most significant strengths and useful skills.

In this session, attendees will learn:

* about anxiety and its symptoms
* techniques to help manage anxiety
* how to use some of the anxiety traits to their advantage