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Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk

about acceptance and change and how they do help with anxiety. If you'll recall in the last episode,

I talked about avoidance and aversion and how they really don't help with our anxiety.

So I wanted to take that coin and flip it over so we can talk about what does help and acceptance and change very much help with

anxiety. If we're trying to get the anxiety to go away.

If we're pushing and you know why wouldn't we want it to go away.

It feels horrible.

I totally understand that.

I've been there and done that and I understand where you are at with that feeling

of wanting it to go away but that very effort of trying to get rid of the anxiety, the aversion like I talked about last time,

reinforces the fear and the anxiety and keeps the cycle going.

It is fueling the fire of anxiety.

That effort, that trying to get rid of, that not only avoidance, but the

aversion, the extreme dislike of what is happening to us, that actually keeps us in the loop. Now that can be hard to grasp because normally we're

thinking things like well when I don't feel well I need to make a change to

make things feel better because it's my body telling me that something

isn't working right or that there is something wrong. But we need to take a step back and realize

like we talked about last time with the noise and the

clear signal like which is this static or is this a clear signal because the mind can play games on us with anxiety

because it's telling us to react in the now about something that isn't

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