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Is delayed gratification one of the overlooked secrets to reducing anxiety?

Is immediacy culture and this thing known as present bias fueling our basal level of daily anxiety,

that background hum or fizziness of anxiety that we have grown so used to living with.

This week on owning it the Anxiety Podcast with me, Caroline Forre, I am joined once again by the

wonderful Dr. Porrick Walsh, behavioral psychologist and founder of actualized.a.e, as we look to answer

these more profound questions about our behaviors in relation to our experience of anxiety.

It is in our nature to seek the path of least resistance, but overall, if we can't learn

to sit with boredom or discomfort or hold off on doing something that will numb the discomfort,

do we wind up contributing more to anxiety overall?

And if that's true, how can we go about working on delayed gratification and

willpower with the goal of helping our anxiety? If you find this episode interesting or helpful

or worth sharing, please do just that. And it would mean the world to me if you signed up to

owning it real time on ACAS Plus, where you can manage your anxiety in the moment that you're feeling

it. You can find the link to sign up there in the podcast show notes where you can also join me on my brand new substack where I talk about

anxiety, careers, parenting, relationships and so few technical glitches trying to get this podcast set up.

But it's all good practice because it makes us feel anxiety and then we can talk about it.

Thanks for joining me.

Thanks for having me back, early.

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