Overcoming Anxiety: Trusting God and Embracing Self-Care

1) "Man, so anxiety is something that we consistently worry about. We constantly worry about no matter what. It's almost like worrying about something that hasn't even happened. And so when I talk about stress, I always talk about it in terms of stress is the body's natural physical and emotional response to a pressure that is greater than a resource we have in that moment. Check that out. And a part of why it's a part of our everyday life is I like to talk about the brain a lot. Do you know that we have over 6,000 thoughts that happen in our mind every day? So if we have over 6,000 thoughts, that means that. And in any each minute, we can change our mind 6.5 times. So imagine what that feels like if your mind is consistently stressed." [02:17] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "The other thing is sometimes we repress our emotions. We're so busy moving. We don't have time to even express ourselves. We don't have time to allow ourselves to feel that emotion. And the last thing is self-care. You always hear the terminology that self-care is not selfish. It's not. It's important. And so it's so important that we need to be able to do that for ourselves. Oh, I like to think of this. I think about spirituality, like prayer, relationship with God, that connection with God, that talking to God, it's actually doing something to your brain, your. Neurons, which means that you're giving yourself a relief where you can actually give yourself and calm your nervous nervous nervous system down in a fight or flight in prayer time." [03:14] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "So here's what I want you to remember. I need you to remember the the P and pray P is P is prepare for the best. You know how we always thinking about, oh, this is going to happen. Oh, this is going to happen. We have that. What if you woke up and prepare for the best? I'm from Louisiana and I was in Girl Scouts. And we used to have to go do like. We had to learn how to fight a bear till you get a patch. And so what I think about now is why did I have to learn how to fight a bear? Seven years old in Louisiana? There's no bears there. So it already creates this anxiety in me, even at an early age. And so instead of me thinking about let me prepare for the worst, I get up and I'm like, oh, let me prepare for the best today." [06:00] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "Guess what? And I'm talking to every single person in this room, everybody who's looking. You are unique. You are wonderfully and fearfully made. What I need you to understand about that, it does not say you are mediocre made. You are you are basic made. You are simplistic made. It says wonderfully. Doubly. So if you have it in your mind to understand that you have that in you, keep that in it." [07:03] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "So as you're writing that word down, as you're writing, you have what you're thinking about what you have i want you to think about all the things that we've talked about talked about if you've been stressed or if you've been overwhelmed or there's something that you're worried about talking about understanding how can i research how can i retrieve help what can i do think about all those things how can i release it okay so now that we have it i think we have the trash cans coming around too now that we have it on there here's what i want you to do you have your worry on you have your worry there right so here's what i want you to think about where do you cast your worries yes okay all right so that's what we're gonna do so right now we're gonna cast our word and not only are we going to cast our word we're going to tear it up i want you to tear that up into so many pieces is that you can't tear it anymore i want you to tear it up so hard that you can't think that you can tear up the pieces any more than what it is already i want you to tear it up so i want it to be gone basically that's how much i want you to tear it up so now that you tear it up there's a trash can coming around i need you to put it in a trash can there's a trash can coming around i need you to put it in a trash can so let me ask you this how many people once they throw something they throw things in the trash they go back in the trash and get it out daily okay so why do you keep picking up your worry okay so we're gonna throw it away we're gonna cast it we're not gonna pick it up and a part of why you can't pick it up is when you throw it in a trash not only is it into little many pieces and it's really hard to put it back there's also other people worries that are in a trash can now so imagine what that's like if you you take on their burdens as well so here's what i want you guys to do now that you've thrown those words away i gotta give you some tools not here too in the event that there's ever a time where you decide to pick up a word which i'm praying that you don't i need you to have your scripture i need you to keep the sheen i need you to be able to put your worry you will I behind scripture i need you to be able to know you can stand on scripture okay so i you to repeat after me and then i'll walk off this door my word to you my word to you i cast my word to you cast my word to you god cast my word to you and one more last time like you mean it one two three amen amen" [10:30] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)