400: Finding Joy Beyond Discomfort
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Gina offers listeners a series of questions they can ask themselves and suggestions they can implement during their experience of the discomfort associated with anxiety and panic.
Turning to face the discomfort we are presented with during high anxiety moments can offer us the opportunity we are seeking to overcome the discomfort.
Questions to ask oneself:
What if there were more beyond that?
What if distracting was keeping us in the loop and holding us back from the joy in life?
What if chasing the desire to make the discomfort stop is actually keeping the pain and discomfort alive?
What if the joy was in going through vs giving in to distraction and running away from discomfort?
What if what we are looking for is in the opening of moving through the discomfort of what we think should be different than it is?
Suggestions to implement:
1.Slow down
2.Get to neutral and be curious about the situation (take the personalization out of it ...look at it as if you were a researcher without an agenda)
3.Remind yourself why you want to get to the other side of this situation and that it is joy that is found from going through the urge to fight flee or freeze when it is discomfort that you are dealing with not true danger.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's show, I'm going to be talking |
| 0:31.2 | about finding joy beyond discomfort. |
| 0:35.0 | And we all know that we carry both of those things in our lives, right? |
| 0:39.0 | We have joy and we have discomfort. maybe it's where our focus is, maybe it's in how we're responding or |
| 0:48.6 | reacting, but before we get to all of that I wanted to celebrate just a tiny bit and say, yay, this is episode |
| 0:58.2 | number 400. |
| 1:00.6 | And so I thought talking about finding joy would be appropriate in a way to celebrate life and to celebrate our ability to find joy and happiness. And we are also days away from hitting a very big |
| 1:17.0 | milestone in podcast world which is hitting 4 million downloads. |
| 1:23.6 | So I appreciate each and every one of you who are listening |
| 1:27.8 | and I know that you are sharing the show, |
| 1:30.5 | whether you are sharing it on social media or word of mouth or just maybe talking to someone |
| 1:38.7 | through an email and saying that you listen to the anxiety coaches podcast and maybe they would like it |
| 1:44.6 | too. |
| 1:45.6 | We appreciate that because as the show grows and the emails flooding and telling us what |
| 1:52.4 | people are getting out of it and what you want more out of. |
| 1:56.4 | We are just going to keep turning the ship in that direction. |
| 2:01.2 | And you know I want to say before you say well I don't share anxiety coaches |
| 2:05.9 | podcast with anybody because I don't want anybody to know I have anxiety I totally |
| 2:11.3 | understand that and I also want to say that you don't have to be |
| 2:15.4 | diagnosed with anxiety or PTSD or OCD or anything to be gaining something from these shows. |
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