> Walking makes me anxious. It's just too slow and makes me feel stuck in a place.
Funnily enough, this is my experience while jogging at a pace sustainable for more than 30 minutes. It feels much better to power-walk the same distance. Potentially the amount of movement forward vs. up/down makes a psychological difference.
My running style was once described as "a lot of up and down, not much forward". Geoffrey Verity Schofeld's cue "Everything FORWARD" (https://youtu.be/x7SAQsmBm5M?t=368) might help you feel like you're making forward progress. It won't be sustainable for 30 minutes at first, but that will be a nice challenge to work up to.
My natural way is very similar to that, going forward all the time.
Since I've been struggling for years to go from "running in my style for 15min" to 30min, I've instead switched to the goal of "running for 30min in any style", then working my own style back into that :).
Funnily enough, this is my experience while jogging at a pace sustainable for more than 30 minutes. It feels much better to power-walk the same distance. Potentially the amount of movement forward vs. up/down makes a psychological difference.