But HOW Do I Accept Anxiety? (Episode 016)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Accepting anxiety and acceptance are two of the most difficult to grasp and misapplied concepts in the entire anxiety recovery sphere. This week on Disordered, Josh and Drew dig into the idea of acceptance.
What is accepting? How do I accept anxiety? What happens when I accept? What things are most certainly NOT acceptance?
As usual, this episode combines professional knowledge and training, professional experience, personal lived experience, and big helpings of both compassion and humor to shed some light on an important part of the anxiety recovery process. We hope you find it useful in some way.
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| 0:00.0 | But how do I accept anxiety? |
| 0:05.0 | You just got to accept the anxiety. |
| 0:07.0 | But why? It feels like trash. |
| 0:10.0 | You're not okay with it. You don't approve of it and you don't like it. |
| 0:13.0 | And I don't think you should have to like it. So it's okay. |
| 0:15.0 | I went to the party and I accepted my anxiety. |
| 0:18.0 | It was there. But it was still there an hour later. I'm accepting it and it's not working. |
| 0:22.6 | Well then you're not accepting it. |
| 0:24.6 | You're accepting it conditionally. |
| 0:26.6 | I'll accept so that it goes away, which is not a thing. |
| 0:30.6 | Acceptance is like, I'm going to feel anxious for as long as it takes, |
| 0:33.6 | and I'm not going to add secondary fear. |
| 0:40.6 | Acceptance is also the abandonment of immediacy. |
| 0:45.5 | If we take the idea of acceptance and we take the vagueness out of it and we turn acceptance into an action, what this person actually did was they stopped resisting. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 16 of the podcast, and today we're answering the question, |
| 0:58.9 | but how do I accept anxiety? Acceptance of anxiety is one of the most misapplied principles in recovery, |
| 1:04.9 | and that's why we really want to talk about it today. I am Drew Lin Salada, co-host of Disordered. |
| 1:09.7 | I am a therapist and training, a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling in the U.S. And I'm Drew Lin-Salada, co-host of Disordered. I am a therapist and training, a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling in the U.S. |
| 1:14.2 | And I'm Joshua Fletcher, also known as Anxiety, Josh, on social media. |
| 1:18.3 | And I'm a psychotherapist who specializes in anxiety disorders based in the UK. |
| 1:23.8 | Good to see you again. |
| 1:24.9 | It's a popular topic, this, isn't it? |
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