922: Managing Anxiety, Difficult Emotions and Situations with Radical Acceptance
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses radical acceptance and how we can use this practice to reduce the severity and adverse consequences of anxiety. Radical acceptance is about accepting reality as it is without judgement or resistance. A number of practical steps are shared to help you implement radical acceptance in your life and in turn reduce your anxiety.
Tara Brach's book: Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha https://amzn.to/41W3gAd
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Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance.
-Tara Brach
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore |
| 0:12.9 | anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as |
| 0:34.6 | together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural |
| 0:41.5 | peace and calm. |
| 0:43.7 | In today's episode, I am talking about managing anxiety, difficulty motions, and situations |
| 0:52.0 | with radical acceptance. |
| 0:54.8 | I have a quote to start us off, and this is from Tara Brock. |
| 0:59.0 | We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully. |
| 1:05.6 | Again, it's from Tara Brock. |
| 1:07.6 | I'll have a link to her book, Radical Acceptance, in the show notes. |
| 1:13.5 | If you would like to read it, Tara Brock wrote just a lovely, lovely book on this, and |
| 1:19.0 | you can either listen to it, or you could read it. |
| 1:22.0 | It's wonderful. |
| 1:23.0 | Again, that link will be in the show notes for you, but she's brilliant. |
| 1:27.4 | So how can we live more fully and peacefully? |
| 1:32.5 | What I learned from Marshall Innihan and her DBT training, which is dialectical behavioral |
| 1:38.3 | therapy, is that we can live more fully and peacefully when we change the behaviors |
| 1:45.4 | in our lives that are creating suffering for both ourselves and others. |
| 1:51.0 | I'll also accept ourselves the way we are. |
| 1:56.2 | Simply put, this is not acceptance or change, but acceptance and change. |
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