EP 0045 - Chap 6 : Hope and Help For Your Nerves (Cure of The More Constant Symptoms)

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

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🗓️ 12 November 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Holly and I return for the next chapter of our series discussing "Hope and Help For Your Nerves" by Dr. Claire Weekes. In this episode we discuss chapter 6, which is probably the lynchpin around which Dr. Weekes built her work. Learning to TRULY accept your anxiety symptoms and to TRULY believe that they are not dangerous will allow you to relax into your symptoms rather than fighting against them. Learning to relax, float, and soften in the face of the onslaught is the path to long term impr...

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0:00.0	All right, we are back.
0:03.0	Look who's on the screen with me. Drew here at that anxiety guide.com, back with Holly
0:09.4	in New York. It's been like a year, I think. It been in more than a year. I was pregnant last time we did this now I've got
0:16.8	And Missy is like off to college so yeah, it's been a while. It's been a minute as they say here in the States. So today we are going for those of you who were following along with Holly and I a year ago or more we were going through Hope and Help for your Nerves, right, by Dr.
0:35.4	Claire Weeks. Quick recap. Australian, she was a physician. I don't remember what she was really.
0:41.2	She was a therapist.
0:42.2	Definitely a doctor.
0:43.4	It's a doctor.
0:44.4	Yeah.
0:45.4	I know she was an MD or a PhD.
0:46.6	But anyway, she did most of her work in the 50s and 60s,
0:50.6	centered around anxiety disorders and how to deal with them and I think we both
0:54.4	tend to agree that her writing is the gold standard to me on you know how to deal
1:00.4	with these issues panic anxiety or phobia, that sort of stuff.
1:03.7	And so Holly and I started last year going through Hope and Help for Your Nerves, which I
1:07.4	think was maybe in her first book, I'm not sure.
1:09.6	Yeah, I just want to make the point because I had to download this yesterday that self-help for your nerves by Dr. Chloe weeks is exactly the same book.
1:17.0	I think one's like a British and American or something like that, but it's the same book.
1:21.0	Maybe, okay, so hope and help for your nerves or self
1:23.6	help for your nerves same book. So if you don't have it it's cheap on Amazon you
1:27.8	could download it as a Kindle book it's out there it's a relatively inexpensive book if you
1:32.2	want to grab it and catch up with the episodes
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