EP 0070 - Finding Your Power Even In The Darkest Moments (w/Monique Koven)
The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast
Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
If you're in the grips of anxiety, panic, agoraphobia or PTSD you may feel powerless and incapable of doing what needs to be done to change things. This isn't true. Monique and I talk about how you have power and control even in the darkest moments. You are not stuck. You are capable of making the changes you need. You might just need to change direction, and you can!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up guys Drew here that anxiety guide dot com back again with Monique |
| 0:04.6 | Covin all the way from Canada. This is the second one in a row you and me. I know I just |
| 0:10.6 | love talking with you. It's so much fun. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, it is. |
| 0:14.0 | So just before we went and started recording, we just start, |
| 0:17.0 | no, no, no, no, no, no, no, |
| 0:18.0 | like wait a minute, we need to actually record this. |
| 0:20.0 | Because we just get rolling. |
| 0:22.0 | So today, we are going to talk about the topic of empowerment, learned helplessness, how that's not really a thing, the power of memory and how it impacts all that stuff. |
| 0:35.9 | And those feelings of feeling that you're not competent or that you can't do this and why those |
| 0:41.7 | feelings are not right. And you have or juice going on than you think you do. |
| 0:46.9 | Yeah, so go ahead run with that you had some really good insights that I'm digging. |
| 0:50.7 | Well yeah because I lived most of my life really believing that I was completely |
| 0:56.8 | powerless, that I was stuck, that somebody would have to help me and I didn't realize you know kind of like all the stuff that was going on in the background which was really my memory because you know the repetitive nature of trauma I came from a really traumatic |
| 1:15.8 | background where I always was in panic I was in the fight and flight and I was in |
| 1:20.0 | the you know the adrenaline going and I need to get out but there's nowhere to go and so you |
| 1:24.6 | know that memory which happened over and over and over again it becomes |
| 1:29.5 | conditioned and you know we start to believe that that's who we are and it reminded me of, you know when you, |
| 1:36.2 | if you're a child or an adult and you touch the stove and you burn your finger. |
| 1:41.1 | Did that. Mm-hmm. |
| 1:43.2 | I can promise you that you're going to remember |
| 1:46.0 | the next time you go through a go next to a burner, |
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