508: Is Anxiety Telling You Who You Are?
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses our conception of our personal identity and the importance of not allowing anxiety to exert excessive influence over this conception. Ego and anxiety are closely related and get along well. Gina shares some tools to help us transcend the influence of these forces over how we understand ourselves.
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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, Hannah and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk about |
| 0:31.4 | our anxiety and our ego and so I wonder if your anxiety is telling you who you are. |
| 0:39.6 | A lot of people come and see me and they have some really negative self-talk and it's hard for |
| 0:46.8 | them to state it. I mean we none of us want to say we think this low or negative of ourselves, but it is very helpful to talk |
| 0:57.6 | about it because we need to bring fresh eyes to it. |
| 1:02.3 | And if we are having our self-worth built up by our anxiety |
| 1:08.0 | we're not going to be very built up we're going to be feeling pretty low even though we may not that may not be |
| 1:16.1 | who we really are but it's all covered up by the anxious thinking and by the ego and the anxiety being good buddies in this and causing some havoc. |
| 1:29.6 | So the way we see ourselves is very biased and subjective and so we tend to think we are what our thoughts are. |
| 1:39.0 | Like we may have a negative thought about ourselves and so we think that's who we are. |
| 1:44.8 | But if we look at this from where our anxiety education that we've been going through here |
| 1:50.3 | on these podcasts, we know that all the thoughts that go through our head are not necessarily true. |
| 1:57.0 | So we want to remember this when we're thinking thoughts about who we are. |
| 2:02.0 | The ego protects us and it protects us in ways that are |
| 2:07.0 | very important. We don't touch us a hot stove. It tells us that we don't like pain so we don't touch the hot stove, right? |
| 2:17.5 | It tells us that we want to avoid pain. We want to remember that we have to pay attention to what are real pains and what are perceived |
| 2:30.4 | pains. Now we know that touching a hot stove is a real pain, but often our anxiety gets us |
| 2:37.3 | spun out into places where everything is painful, every thought that we have is painful, every emotion is painful. |
| 2:46.6 | So we want to pay attention to that is just our thoughts taking us down the wormhole. |
| 2:54.0 | So we want to be careful and we want to not let our anxiety dictate who we are. |
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