Anxiety Recovery PROCESS vs CONTENT (Episode 162)
About this episode
The episode discusses the difference between addressing the content of anxiety and the underlying process that drives it.
It's your heart. Or the dizziness. Or the one thought you can't get to leave you alone. If you could just solve that specific thing, you'd finally be okay. This week we push back on that. -- Want to talk about what you're hearing today with Drew, Josh, and others that share your experience? We're hanging out in the Disordered Community Space: https://disordered.fm/community -- The subject of your fear, the heartbeat, the health scare, the intrusive thought, the situation you're avoiding, is the content. What's actually running underneath it, the same threat response, the same doubt, the same physical symptoms no matter what story your brain attaches them to this week, is the process. Chase the content and it just moves. Solve one fear and another takes its place, because you were never fighting the fear itself. We also get into the exception clause, the "yeah, but what about" that convinces you your specific situation is somehow different from every other anxious thought you've ever had, and why treating it that way only teaches your brain the opposite of what you're trying to teach it. None of this means the content doesn't matter. Your health matters. Your…
More episodes of Disordered: Anxiety Help
- Anxiety And Releasing Tension (Episode 164)
- When Anxiety Says You're The Exception (Episode 163)
- Anxiety Recovery: Bring ALL Versions Of You (Episode 161)
- Anxiety: It's All About Attention, Baby! (Episode 160)
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