Building an Internal Sense of Safety for PTSD, Trauma or Anxiety: Day 23 Break the Anxiety Cycle

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

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Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Online Course: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/anxietyskills If you want to manage PTSD or Anxiety, you need to learn how to interrupt the anxiety cycle and to do that you've got to interrupt the perception of danger. We do that by fostering an internal sense of safety, this is a practical skill we can develop and in the PTSD treatment world it's called Resourcing or Building an Internal Sense of Safety. 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	Hi and welcome to the Therapy in a Nutschell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family
0:04.9	therapist, and it's my mission to create easy to understand educational content about therapeutic
0:10.2	skills and topics that anyone can use in their daily life. Stay tuned to until the end of the video
0:15.4	to learn more about my mental health courses, discounts, and other news related to therapy in a nutshell. I hope you enjoy the
0:22.4	episode. Each podcast episode comes from a corresponding video you can find on the Therapy in a
0:28.5	nutshell YouTube channel. Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice or
0:34.1	direction you may be receiving from a therapist or other health professional.
0:38.3	All right, let's jump in.
0:41.1	In this video, you're going to learn to stop the anxiety cycle by exploring an internal sense of safety.
0:47.8	So let's take a look at the anxiety cycle. So right here after stimulus is this
0:51.9	interpretation that we're in danger. And this interpretation interpretation that we're in danger.
0:54.6	And this interpretation belief that we are in danger, that the danger is a significant and a real threat causes the anxiety response in our bodies.
1:05.6	And the problem isn't that we can't handle real dangers.
1:09.2	Our body is built to perceive a threat, act on it,
1:12.1	and resolve it, and then resolve that stress response. The problem is that when we worry,
1:18.6	when we catastrophize, when automatic negative thoughts or mental filtering or memories of trauma
1:25.4	come up, we have perceived danger when we're actually
1:29.3	safe. So you may spend hours each day in perceived danger, which leads to an anxiety state,
1:36.1	and this might last for the majority of the day. And this can leave us feeling anxious and
1:42.3	exhausted and overwhelmed. Because our body is like at this heightened
1:46.0	state where its heart is beating faster and its muscles are tight and it's like you've run a
1:50.1	stress marathon while just sitting in your chair at work. In the last section of this course,
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