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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. Today we want to talk about black and white thinking and how that fuels our stress and anxiety.

So let's get going. Let's talk a little bit about black and white thinking and how that fuels our stress and anxiety. The world wants us to fit everything into little boxes. It seems like everything needs to be

figured out, it needs to be labeled, and we need to be sure about everything.

And the reality is that's just not how things work.

If you have anxiety, you probably are already struggling with trying to find neutral.

Obviously there's many things that we need to sift and sort and we do, but we don't want to get overly

compulsive about that. Everything being good or bad, black or white, hot or cold.

There is a lot of gray area in life and the more comfortable we can become with that shifting gray area because

it can be gray going toward dark, it can be gray going toward dark it can be gray going toward light that's a very vast area

but that's where most of life is lived we actually don't usually know the full story behind things that are going on. We don't

know the full story behind people. People aggravate us. They cut us off in traffic and you know we are sure

that they are a jerk or insert your favorite swear word or and you know we're all amped up then and we could we could

conceivably try to get around them again and look over and it's like a little old lady. It could be my

mama, you know, it could be somebody who just got really bad news. It could be an angry teenager who was purposefully cutting you off, but we don't

know. Most of the times we are using judgment and we are wanting to put things into black and white good

or bad and I'm telling you the more we can get into that gray area and see that the possibility of something beyond that

Something bigger than just black and white.

We get to enjoy life a little bit more because we're open,

we're open to the possibilities.

And so one of my favorite stories that pertains to this and I'm going to read this to you so I try to do it sometimes from memory but I hate to leave anything out.

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