Anxiety about Anxiety: Break the Anxiety Cycle Day 12

Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course- https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills Feeling anxiety won’t harm you. Your body is wired to feel anxiety. It’s supposed to. You can handle it. But when we become afraid of our feelings, then suddenly we get stuck in a super unhelpful spiral. We start struggling against them, trying to force ourselves to calm down with “deep breathing or meditation” anything to make the anxiety go away. But this just makes things worse. We pile anxiety onto our anxiety. Anxiety about anxiety looks like -Fear of losing control -Anticipatory Anxiety: -Feeling anxious about your anxious thoughts. Oh no! I’m catastrophizing again! This will ruin everything! In this podcast we will talk about how to stop that anxious spiral. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional from the comfort of your own home. Try it now for 10% off your first month: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger Institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC

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0:00.0	This is the Therapy in a Nutshell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family therapist.
0:06.0	These episodes are filled with research-backed therapeutic education that you can start applying in your life today.
0:12.0	I hope you find today's episode beneficial, and if you know of someone who could benefit from this podcast,
0:17.0	please don't hesitate to share it. Let's work together and share tools everyone can use
0:22.0	to help deal with the difficult mental health struggles they're going through. Each podcast episode
0:27.3	comes from a corresponding video. You can find them on the Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube channel.
0:33.3	Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice or direction you may be receiving
0:39.7	from a therapist or other health professionals.
0:43.6	Please enjoy the episode.
0:45.7	In this video, you're going to learn about one modern lie that keeps you trapped in the
0:49.0	anxiety cycle and how to interrupt the cycle of being anxious about anxiety.
0:55.0	Alright everyone, you've probably been lied to about anxiety.
0:59.0	In our culture we have this myth that anxiety is super dangerous for you,
1:03.0	that there's an epidemic of anxiety.
1:06.0	That anxiety itself, the feeling is a threat,
1:09.0	and that having that feeling is dangerous, it's harmful, and that
1:12.6	it's worse than it's ever been before. Now, this is fueled by cultural messaging that
1:19.0	screams. If you're not happy all the time, something's wrong with you. And you should probably
1:26.7	buy what we're selling to fix it.
1:29.3	And it's also fueled by modern media, which profits off of scaring people.
1:35.3	Literally.
1:36.3	I googled the anxiety epidemic and I got 35 million results.
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