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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

On today's podcast, we're going to be talking about anxiety's resistance to what is. Well what is already is and in

our own mind sometimes that isn't what we want.

So we resist it.

Human nature, it's what we do.

But I want to talk about how this is so painful and how it feeds into our anxiety and causes us even more pain.

One of the things that we know for sure is that our go-to instinct when we feel anxious is to avoid, to resist, to run away, to fight,

right? So it can bring up a lot of different things, but the usual thing is to avoid

resist or run away, to white knuckle it, to just get through, hurry, run, do it.

But it isn't always the best action to take.

What happens is, resistance is really important. It's really important for when we have

something to really run away from or something that we need to fight because we need to resist the thing that's

coming toward us right we need to resist the bear that is chasing us by by

fighting him or fleeing from him.

So it has its place, just like we always talk about,

even those hormones that are being released,

it all has a place and it's all working for us but it might be that we are coming up with

this kind of need for the resistance because of thoughts because of is anxious people are not often resisting real hardcore in your face threats for like what we were built for but what we're really dealing with are

internal overreactions to some things that are actually non-threatening or they might even at the most

be mildly threatening and we can look at it as our reaction to these things but what we want to

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