4 Lies anxiety likes to tell you and how not to believe them

Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga

Shann Vander Leek & Ananga Sivyer

Alternative Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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#603: This is the third week of the Anxiety Slayer Summer Series. For the month of August, we're taking a summer break and queuing up your favorite episodes from our vast archives. This is a wonderful time to listen again or if you're new to Anxiety Slayer, you may be discovering these episodes for the first time. This week we're sharing the lies anxiety often tells us and how to regain self-acceptance and calm. For more resources for calming anxiety, you can join us on our Patreon where you can get a deeper dive into some of the topics we cover as well as over 100 downloads, including all our guided relaxations and Tapping Sessions. Learn more at https://www.patreon.com/anxietyslayer Today’s Anxiety Slayer podcast is sponsored by Betterhelp BetterHelp wants to remind you that you matter just as much as everyone else does, and therapy is a great way to make sure you show up for yourself. BetterHelp is online therapy that offers video, phone and even live chat sessions with your therapist, so you don’t have to see anyone on camera if you don’t want to. It’s much more affordable than in-person therapy and you can be matched with a therapist in under 48 hours. Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Special offer for Anxiety Slayer listeners, get 10% off your first month at http://betterhelp.com/slayer

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Anxiety Slayer podcast. I'm Shan Vanderleak here with my
0:17.4	wonderful friend and partner in Angasivir and today we're going to be
0:21.0	discussing the lies anxiety tells you and how not to listen.
0:27.0	Welcome back, Ananga Nation.
0:31.0	Anxiety is sneaky in the way it affects our internal dialogue and one of the problems with
0:37.5	anxiety is that it's so exhausting that we take the lies that come up seriously.
0:44.0	And because we're so tired from trying to cope,
0:47.0	when anxiety whispers in our ear,
0:49.0	we actually listen to it,
0:51.0	and we believe it to be true. Yeah we get so warm down so fatigued by anxiety that
0:56.8	sometimes we just don't have the mental energy to shrug it off or to question it. I think that's always the really helpful thing with anxiety
1:04.8	when it blows in our ear fearful thoughts is to stop and question it and not take it as a truth by default,
1:11.6	but we get so tired and anxiety is so clever at
1:14.4	presenting things that we fear might be real that it gets our attention.
1:19.8	It really does and there are so many lies that come up but there are four that we
1:26.3	hear about the most and that we're aware of and have experienced ourselves and the
1:31.4	first lie is that there is something wrong with you.
1:35.0	And once anxiety has our attention, it quickly tries to share as much evidence as possible to support these lies.
1:47.4	And a useful tip that we came across from Susan Jeffers in her book, feel the fear and do it anyway,
1:54.4	is to write on a piece of card I can handle it.
1:58.0	And she recommends keeping that card within your sight
2:01.7	and getting used to questioning anxiety's lies and not
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