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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I'm talking about

Avoidance and Aversion and how they don't help with your anxiety.

We talk here often about the avoidance part, like don't avoid the things that you are fearing don't

continually make your life and your world smaller and smaller because it will just

keep getting smaller we do learn to lean in and to not

avoid and I also want to add in there the aversion. We want to be careful of our

aversions.

That's that really strong dislike or steering clear of,

you know, don't, that deep feeling of dislike is actually quite alarming to our system.

So that doesn't help with our anxiety either.

And we can look at the words fear and anxiety and we use them, I use them often interchangeably.

But in some ways they can be a little bit different. So I want to look at the difference of that today a little bit and then

Look at how it all melds together

We typically look at fear as that really concrete fight or flight response that comes up to a very real and present immediate danger.

It's very present oriented. We know that it's happening such as you step off that

curb and you all of a sudden see a car speeding around the corner at you and you just immediately jump up.

That was fear that got you to move and that fear is that surge of panic and that desire to move quickly is for survival.

And this is a part of us that we are still living with that survival mechanisms that help to keep us

physically safe and we still need them and so we can have this response though to physical threats but also to social threats.

So that can get a little bit more murky.

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