54 // Dentists, Stress and Fear

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 54 of The Mindful Kind podcast!

In this episode, you'll hear an honest and open story about my own fear and stress and how un-mindful I was in a very recent situation.

I hope this episode will show you how difficult it can be to practice mindfulness sometimes and how easy it can be to slip into stress.

A few things I learned:

Lean in to supports.

Do research or prepare for challenging situations to make yourself feel safer.

Listen to your body.

Be open to the positives in challenging situations.

Learn from your stressful situation about how you could be more mindful next time.

Most importantly, be forgiving and kind towards yourself and practice not feeling ashamed for the way you feel. This is a gentle reminder that we're human and things happen and we're all just doing the best we can.

I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey
0:12.3	and inspire you to create your own.
0:14.9	Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,
0:19.7	from my personal experiences to useful tools and different
0:23.6	mindful techniques.
0:31.6	Hello and welcome to episode 54 of the Mindful Kind podcast.
0:42.5	First of all, my apologies, this episode was released a little late this week.
0:48.6	I've been unwell with a chest infection and I've been taking things easy and resting up as much as I could.
0:50.5	So the topic I'm going to share with you this episode is actually more of an experience.
0:56.5	I wasn't really sure if I wanted to talk about it, but I hope that either you might learn
1:02.2	something about managing stress or it helps you to accept your own emotions, even if at first
1:08.2	maybe you feel ashamed of them.
1:19.1	All right, so yesterday I had a toothache and I booked in with a dentist for the first time in about six years.
1:27.3	I'm lucky to have pretty good teeth so I haven't really had a huge reason to go, but in complete honesty, I'm terrified of going to the dentist and
1:31.2	have been ever since I was in year 10 of high school and had some really bad experiences
1:37.2	at a dental clinic during my work experience. So yes, I know I should have been to the dentist much sooner than this, but I just
1:46.8	couldn't bring myself to book in and go. I avoided the issue because I didn't want to deal with it
1:53.7	and all the fear and all the stress. Anyway, I asked my boyfriend to come along with me because he's cool, calm and collect when I'm feeling stressed.
2:05.7	And I knew that having that support was going to be really helpful for me.
2:10.7	As we were driving to the clinic, I started freaking out.
2:14.7	My mind was racing.
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