Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore

anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life.

Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

In today's episode, I want to talk to you about the fact that you can tolerate anxiety.

A big part of the struggle with anxiety is this mistake and belief that we can't handle

it.

That we can't take these symptoms and sensations, the thoughts that we can't handle it.

But I'm here to tell you that you can tolerate it and that's actually a part of getting

out of it, out of the cycle of stress, more adrenaline, and cortisol, and more anxiety.

A central component of healing from high stress, anxiety, and panic is really learning how

to tolerate anxious feelings.

Life has both ups and downs, and understanding that we can tolerate the downs, and that

we don't have to avoid them is vital.

The inability to tolerate distress is a precise predictor of anxiety.

Maybe many of you know this because you maybe can see how you fell into anxiety to begin

with, from those thoughts, the idea that you have an inability to tolerate distress.

You have it, you just aren't practicing it, and that continues to make the stress build

in our lives and keeps us in that stuck place.

We all have challenges and problems in our lives.

But the core of challenges causing anxiety is our inability to tolerate and manage the

distress these challenges bring with them.

Sometimes we find ways to manage our distress, and that's relieving in the short term, but

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