Hey, what's up guys? Drew here, that anxiety guide.com. It's a Saturday afternoon. I get a couple minutes to kelp while I'm waiting for one of my daughters and I'm going to talk about something that I've been meaning to talk about for the last week or so.

So the title of this video is Positive Self Talk is bullshit

and I mean it.

This is and hear me out.

This sounds crazy to say at face value, right?

But this is truth. Positive self-talk is not is not

what we need. And so let me address this. One of the things that I hear people talk

about when they say, hey, I'm trying to learn to accept, I'm trying to learn to float hey I'm trying to learn to accept I'm trying to learn to

float I'm trying to learn to relax into my my panic great excellent and people

talk about using the skills and the tools they need to do that, excellent, right? All good.

Breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, all the tools that we can use to go into a

relax response as opposed to a braced and fighting response.

All good.

One of the things that I hear talked about a lot on multiple levels

is self-talk. And a lot of people at face value they want to call themselves

anxiety gurus mental health people they're going to talk about positive self-talk and

I hear people using that I use my self-talk my positive self-talk and I hear people using that I use my self-talk my

positive self-talk no no let me tell you why positive self-talk is

bullshit and it's actually in the long run counterproductive when you feel anxiety rising, right? You think that there's panic coming

or you are in the middle of a panic attack, the worst one you could think of.

Positive self-talk, which usually goes along the lines of, I'm okay,

I'm okay is the foundation, the thought I'm okay is the foundation of

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