The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

Y'know on your phone how you can set your notifications to ping you in real-time, so that every time you get an email it pops up on your screen? Orrrrr you can set it so that you have to open the app and actually *check* your email to see what's new? Yeah, that's kinda sorta what we're talking about today on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast. Because we do this with: our to-do lists, requests from family and neighbors, societal norms and expectations, text messages, and work projects. We tend to walk around with our "push notifications" from the external world wide open, setting ourselves up to be virtual antennas for whatever messages are coming our way. But I want to consider what would shift if we moved towards a "pull" system instead. What if we didn't allow our attention, energy, focus, and awareness to be yanked around by whatever "they" wanted from us? What if we checked in with ourselves first...and determined whether we had the capacity or bandwidth for whatever request was landing in our laps? What i