57 | Cancel Exercise: This Is Why You Avoid It When You’re Anxious

Do you keep telling yourself you should work out, but still avoid it?
Does exercise feel like one more thing to fail at when you are already anxious?
Have you ever wondered why movement helps anxiety, but feels so hard to start?

When you are anxious, exercise can feel like pressure instead of relief. In this episode, Jessica Davis breaks down why anxiety makes movement harder to start, why staying stuck often makes stress worse, and how to make exercise feel more realistic, supportive, and doable.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why anxiety makes exercise feel harder than it should
• How movement helps release stress from your body
• Why avoiding movement often keeps anxiety going
• Simple ways to move, even if you hate working out
• How to stop thinking about exercise in an all-or-nothing way

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