EP 0071 - You Do NOT Have To Follow Every Thought You Have! (w/Monique Koven)
The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast
Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Many people are under the false impression that they must honor, follow and engage deeply with every thought they have. This is simply not true. When dealing with both anxiety and trauma issues, your thoughts can often be your enemy. Listening to everything you think and acting as if every thought is correct and valid can lead you deeper in the anxiety maze. Monique has some excellent ways to frame this and some outstanding ways to approach this problem. We discuss awareness of our constant thoughts, why we often give them more power and respect than they deserve, and how the nature of thoughts are to be temporary. If you can stop the mental chatter, things will most times get much better faster than you think.
Thank you again to my friend Monique for taking the time with us today!
My Links
https://theanxioustruth.com/links
Intro/Outro Music: "Afterglow" by The Ben Drake Collective. Used with permission. Find Ben Drake on Facebook or at bendrakemusic.com.
Find Monique Online
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https://moniquekovencoaching.com
https://www.facebook.com/MoniqueKovenCoaching/
https://anchor.fm/monique34
https://www.instagram.com/cptsd.recovered.coach/
Disclaimer: The Anxious Truth is not therapy or a replacement for therapy. Listening to The Anxious Truth does not create a therapeutic relationship between you and the host or guests of the podcast. Information here is provided for psychoeducational purposes. As always, when you have questions about your own well-being, please consult your mental health and/or medical care providers. If you are having a mental health crisis, always reach out immediately for in-person help.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up dudes and do debts? Drew that anxiety guy |
| 0:03.0 | dot com back again with my friend Moniqueovin all the way from Canada with her |
| 0:07.3 | wisdom and kindness and smileies. Oh, thank you. |
| 0:11.6 | You're happy to be here again. |
| 0:14.0 | This is our second take. |
| 0:16.0 | Again, technical difficulties. |
| 0:18.0 | Ruin everything. |
| 0:19.0 | So today, we have a good topic today. |
| 0:21.8 | This is right up Monique's alley. We're going to talk about thoughts and how maybe not to be dragged around by them, the fact that you do not have to follow every single thought that comes in your head. |
| 0:33.2 | So since this is kind of a doublegwick, |
| 0:35.7 | and I think you have more to add to it than I do, |
| 0:38.5 | I'm gonna let you start. |
| 0:39.5 | Tell me about what the issue is with thinking. |
| 0:42.3 | Why is it a problem sometimes? |
| 0:43.4 | Essentially I mean this was revolutionary I mean I thought I understood about thinking |
| 0:50.0 | so I know nothing because as I started to really understand our design the way we're created, the way we work psychologically, I started to see that as human beings we feel our thinking physically, you know, somatically. |
| 1:08.8 | And so when we had a thought, whether it's true or not whether it's you know |
| 1:15.4 | Something happy something sad a traumatic thought |
| 1:18.7 | Whatever it is we're going to experiencing it. We're going to experience it somatically. |
| 1:23.7 | We're going to feel our thinking. |
| 1:25.1 | Sure. |
| 1:26.1 | Huge for me when I started to recognize that we're living in the feeling of our |
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