Welcome back. DoDats and Dudes. This is episode 118,

118, 118 of the Anxious Truth. Thank you for coming by and spending your time with me. I appreciate it as always.

We're going to do something a little bit different today. My plan for this episode was to talk about what I was calling the bad day playbook, essentially how to make a plan or a

playbook that you could just fall back on and automatically execute during the recovery

process when you have those days where you're struggling when it's a bad day because they're going to come.

And last night when I was thinking about it a little bit, because I don't really plan ahead for these episodes so much, I have a topic and then I just start speaking and stuff sort of happens.

And I realized, hey, wait a minute, I've written a book about this and I wrote an entire lesson

specifically about this, the days where you struggle and the expectation that you're going to struggle

what you can do about it. So I said, well, if I was smart, why don't I just read the chapter of the book

because it's going to be much more coherent and probably detailed than the stuff

that I'm going to come up with just stream of consciousness as I go along.

So today we will read lesson 5.5 it's called Expect Struggle, and it is from my book entitled The Anxious Truth

A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Agoraphobia.

If you are interested in the book, especially after hearing this little preview lesson, you can find it at the

Anxious Truth.com slash recovery guide.

The description is there. There is a sample chapter, download. There's another audio sample that you can download and every place that you can get the book

is listed there and if you've already bought the book and you're enjoying it and it's

helping you maybe take a moment to review it on Amazon I would appreciate that

anyway okay so I'm going to read the chapter. I will probably add some of my own commentary at the end because it's not a super long chapter. I'll sort of wrap it up with some of my own thoughts. Hopefully it will be helpful to you and I will see you

guys afterwards.

Lesson 5.5. Expect to struggle. This is a lesson that I wish I didn't have to write, but I'd be leaving out an important bit of

information and experience if I didn't write it.

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