While the strategies in the previous post are ways to regulate in-the-moment when we pop into anxiety and the fight or flight response (sympathetic nervous system), in order to prevent these situations from continuing to happen we can make larger shifts in our lives.  Whenever making changes to our lives, it is important to take small steps changing one thing at a time so as not to overwhelm ourselves and inadvertently sabotage our efforts.  By shifting things slowly over time we can build on our successes.  You may or may not being doing some or all of these things already.  Perhaps consider adding one or part of one slowly over time.