One man, one mission. To rid the world of chronic anxiety once and for all, the anxiety guy Dennis Simpsick shares his personal transformation from living a life filled with overwhelming worry to becoming a full-fledged positivity machine.

A leading authority in generalizing anxiety, Dennis gets to the truth of your mental health challenges and sets you on a path to transforming each and every area of your life.

Here he is, the one and only, the anxiety guy.

Welcome to episode number 288. This is the anxiety guy podcast. I'm Dennis Simpsick. Thank you. Warriors for joining me today in this podcast episode.

I hope that this podcast episode can be the inspiration and the wisdom that you need when you wake up on Monday morning and take on the day, take on the week, take on the rest of your life because together we are becoming more than anxiety.

You can be certain of that. And Warriors, this podcast episode is brought to you by the anxiety guy.com, head on over to the anxiety guy.com, read a couple blog posts, learn more about my programs and get on the path towards healing anxiety for good, the anxiety guy.com.

And in today's podcast episode, I want to talk about progress. You know, when you think about progress, it's like, oh, I'm making progress because I feel better.

I'm making progress because I no longer think these types of ideas. I'm making progress because I'm building my relationships.

Yeah, that's a part of it. But what's interesting about progress is that things can get a lot worse before they get better. And when things get worse, it's not that it's getting worse for you.

It's that you are revealing certain things that you have consciously been running from for far too long. So what is progress?

Is a stepping stone that leads to the realization of an eventual personal goal. It's a stepping stone. It's not the end. It may even be the beginning. That's progress.

So as long as we see progress as being a stepping stone, we can understand that, hey, there's another stone that I have to step on eventually.

And to tell you the truth, is there an end to this? Well, yes, there is because you no longer suffer from anxiety. Right? You no longer suffer from such a sensitized state, your environment and people and such.

Yes, so there is an end to anxiety, but is there an end to progress? No, there isn't. There's maintenance. Then there's personal growth. Then you move towards a more inspiring and committed life towards other people.

And then you're writing your book and then you're speaking on a stage. Right? And so there is no end to your improvement. Understand that.

So let's get into the three truths about progress over anxiety. Truth number one is that progress reveals the root causes of your anxiety. Oh boy, this is big.

Progress reveals the root causes of your anxiety. You want to find the root cause of your anxiety, make progress.

Because it's not that progress will just end everything. No, progress will reveal what has been stuck within your subconscious mind, body and spirit for this long.

So someone's making progress and all of a sudden they start to feel an ache in their tummy or their tummy starts to feel tight every single time they visit a certain environment while there you go.

There's a connection there and your level of consciousness, your level of awareness will allow you to be less reactive in that moment and more so guiding.

Because it is only when we begin to guide the very thing that we are afraid of that we begin to heal. We must understand this.

So when you're making progress, you will reveal the root causes of your anxiety. And as you do, you can continue to listen to your intuition.

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