407: Listener Q and A When Your Worst Fear Happens
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Gina answers a listener question about what to do when you worst fear actually happens to you. In the case of this listener, the fears in focus relate to health. Gina recommends a few particular strategies when facing great anxiety relating to specific fears and are not limited to the domain of health anxiety. In particular Gina goes over: acceptance, surrender, leaning towards uncertainty rather than turning away from it, recalling your ability to overcome prior challenges, and closely examining the evidence you are facing in your current situation. Listen in for explanation of these anxiety relieving tips.
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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. |
| 0:27.0 | In today's episode, I'll be answering a listener's question that came in via email. |
| 0:36.3 | This question came from Rebecca |
| 0:38.5 | and she had some interest in knowing |
| 0:41.9 | what to do when your worst fear happens. |
| 0:47.0 | So, Rebecca, thank you for sending your question in, |
| 0:50.6 | and I'm glad that we could get to this and I hope that you are hearing our answer today. |
| 0:56.0 | And this question is good for everyone. |
| 1:00.0 | Even if you are not in Rebecca's shoes, you will be able to relate to what to do, how are we to handle |
| 1:09.8 | when what we are fearing or what we have feared actually happens. |
| 1:16.1 | It is moved out of our imagination and moved into our reality. |
| 1:21.9 | Again, Rebecca, thank you for sending your question. |
| 1:25.0 | Rebecca says, Hi, Gina. I am a long time listener to your show, and I like how you really touch on so many things that a person experiences |
| 1:35.7 | when they have the awful thing of health anxiety. My question is, is what a person to do or how do you deal with the very thing that is your worst fear when it happens? |
| 1:52.0 | This has happened to me not in a full-blown way but enough |
| 1:57.4 | that I have had to have treatment and surgery. It was awful, followed by a horrible and have not dealt with any of it well and it has made my anxiety worse. Thank you for your time, Rebecca. |
| 2:20.0 | Rebecca, thank you for sending that email. You are actually speaking what a lot of people |
| 2:28.3 | talk to me about. By the time people come to see me often, they have not only had imaginary things in their mind that have been causing them anxiety, |
| 2:39.0 | but have actually lived through some of these challenging situations that they feared. Life does happen and it |
| 2:47.4 | isn't always the way that we wanted it to be. So I want to talk about four areas that we need to bring into our lives not only when we are anticipating with anxiety and fearful with anxiety, but when life throws |
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