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The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

507: Why We Need To Avoid Avoiding

The Anxiety Coaches Podcast

Gina Ryan

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In today's episode, Gina discusses the nature of the avoidance behavior that accompanies anxiety sufferers throughout their experience. Gina focuses on the importance of minimizing avoidance behavior when we are experiencing anxiety and how doing so will help speed our recovery from anxiety. Listen in for advice on how to avoid avoiding!

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Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

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

1:31.4

why we need to avoid avoiding. I hope that you're going to follow me on this.

1:38.7

It is important for us to remember and to actually notice that one of the biggest problems with anxiety

1:50.1

and anxiety disorders the whole the whole array of them,

1:56.3

is that we are avoiding feeling anxious,

2:01.8

our attempt to avoid feeling anxious is what keeps us stuck. I know I talk about this in many

2:09.8

different ways so I'm hoping that one of these ways that we come around and about

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