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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode we'll be talking

about three steps to deal with those intrusive thoughts.

Intrusive thoughts are particularly scary.

The things that we are afraid of can vary and one of the words that I hear come up over and over again are people saying that they have crazy thoughts and although we all know what we mean when we say that

word so I'm going to use it today because things that are crazy thinking feel like they are

things that are uncharacteristic for us.

Things we are just like, where did that come from?

Those intrusive thoughts can be so disturbing.

Again, they are very uncharacteristic for us and that is why they bother us so much.

And that fact that they're bothering us, irritating us, is what keeps us in the loop of that. If you have had intrusive

thoughts, you notice that they're repetitive. It goes over and over and over and

over and over, and the same kind of thought can come up over and over or you can have one

intrusive thought lead into another and this state of adding more and more fuel to the fire each time or involved with this intrusive thinking keeps us in the loop.

And it is not only repetitive and disturbing it's exhausting.

Again that state that we're in when we have all of those stress hormones raging

through our body is similar to the feeling like I have said before by being

chased by a wild animal and the fact is that those hormones that are

releasing and that feeling way we're

way we're getting is the way we're built.

It's our humanness that is trying to keep us alive

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