Welcome to That Anxiety Guy, episode 4, The Power of Memory. Hey everybody Drew here. Drew here. Thanks for stopping in to listen.

Today I want to talk about memory.

I specific... Hey everybody, Drew here, thanks for stopping in to listen.

Today I want to talk about memory.

I specifically want to talk about the power of memory

to trigger symptoms and sensations of anxiety,

the things that feel like panic.

I want to touch upon how understanding that

process can actually go a long way toward helping you make some forward progress at

exactly the time that it feels like you're going backward. But I really want to start with relaying a little bit

of what happened to me this past weekend because that's really what inspired this topic and

made me want to talk about it today. So last Thursday I set an appointment with one of my customers, and this appointment

involved me getting out of the house by myself and driving over to my office on Sunday

afternoon, where I knew I'd have to spend maybe an hour or two on the phone with them working on a project

that we were doing together.

Now in my business, working on a Sunday afternoon isn't necessarily out of character.

It's something that happens now and again so that doesn't really

bother me. And I'll also tell you that for the past few years based on all the hard

work that I've done years ago, none of that stuff is really an issue. But if I go back into the fall of 2008 and the winter of 2009,

knowing that I had to do something that would have been disastrous for me. The anticipatory

anxiety, the minute I planned that event would have been crippling.

Back in those days I had a really hard time getting out of the house and into the car by myself

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