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

about the limits of logic and containment around your anxiety. We often, when we have anxiety, learn

from things that we're reading and listening to or help that we are getting. We learn different ways of

using our logic and using containment to deal with our anxiety and it can be

helpful, especially in the early stages of feeling worked up, these things can be very helpful.

We want to remember that we have more that we can do than just trying to deal logically with

our anxiety or trying to keep it in a container.

You know, in a container meaning I'll think about that later or

that isn't affecting me right now. Let's put that aside and again when you're in the right mind frame, you can do that.

And you can actually use your logic with your anxiety or when you're not really in a high state of stress or leading toward a panic and if you're in a

panic attack these probably logic and containment aren't going to help you

at all so that's why it's good to know things,

above and beyond the type of keeping it under wraps, right? Controlling it, so to speak,

manipulating it in a way that serves us.

And you know that is all wonderful but one of the things we need to remember in life is that we can't control the world

and what's going to come at us and that includes

the thoughts that go through our head.

The many, many, many thoughts that go through our head,

thoughts that we don't even

understand ourselves and don't know why we have them we can't control that that's

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