EP 117 - Fear Is Not A Failure - With Dr. Bridget Cooper

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

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Recovery from an anxiety disorder gets even harder when you judge the presence of fear as an immediate failure. Dr. B - Bridget Cooper - joined me today to talk about fear, and the misconception that the presence of fear indicates failure of some kind. For full show notes on this episode go to https://theanxioustruth.com/117 The Highlights: 1. Being afraid is NOT failure. There are a few reasons you may be thinking this, most based on old self-limiting beliefs and what Dr. B calls...

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0:00.0	We got everything but the truth.
0:09.0	Everything but the truth.
0:10.0	What's the truth, damn it?
0:12.0	I'm afraid! All right? You want to hear me say it? You want to break me down? I'm afraid!
0:18.0	Yo Adrian! Dudes, duets. Welcome back. This is episode 117 of the anxious truth.
0:27.0	Welcome to the show. Call it the show. That's my thing now. I'm glad you're here. Thanks for coming by.
0:32.0	That was a quote from Rocky Three, hence the Yo Adrian, my Rocky
0:37.6	imitation. I'm a sucker for the Rocky movies. If I find them on somewhere, I'm going to watch
0:41.5	him even though I've seen them already I'll watch
0:43.7	them anyway anyway in that scene from Rocky 3 Adrian and Rocky are on the beach in
0:49.0	LA and Adrian just breaks Rocky down disaster he has to admit that he's afraid.
0:54.4	And that leads me to today's podcast episode.
0:56.4	I was joined for about 30, 35 minutes
0:58.7	by my good friend Dr. B.
1:00.4	Bridget Cooper is back.
1:01.6	You all loved her the first time, which is great, and you love her this time too.
1:05.0	And we talked for about 30, 35 minutes on the topic of fear.
1:08.0	This is going to be really good because we started from the premise that many people are absolutely resistant to the idea of
1:15.6	experiencing fear. They immediately judge it negatively, they call it a failure, just for
1:20.1	feeling fear, even when they know that part of the recovery process is
1:24.2	learning to experience fear in a productive way. So we started there and then we just
1:28.8	kind of went off on a tangent. We went sort of careening widely out of control.
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