EP 126 - Learning To Sit Still And Be Alone With Your Anxiety
The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast
Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Doods and Doodets. Welcome back. This is episode 126 of the podcast, The Anxious Truth. |
| 0:21.2 | Thanks for coming by. Welcome to the show. Today our topic is learning how to sit still. |
| 0:28.0 | I know that this is a thing that is terrifying to many of you. The idea of sitting still, sitting |
| 0:34.3 | with your thoughts, not being busy, just being with your own body, being with your |
| 0:39.2 | own thoughts, without distracting yourself. Learning how to sit still really and confronting |
| 0:44.3 | the fear of doing that is really about learning how to do that without distracting yourself. |
| 0:49.2 | So that's what we're going to talk about today. And I know that this is a challenge for |
| 0:51.5 | many, many, many, many of you because you have told me this over and over and I am listening. |
| 0:56.3 | So we're going to address that before we do. You know what I got to do. The book is called |
| 1:01.6 | The Anxious Truth, a step-by-step guide to understanding and overcoming panic anxiety |
| 1:05.7 | and agoraphobia. It is on Amazon and a bunch of other places and I wrote it to be essentially |
| 1:11.5 | a textbook on how to recover from your anxiety disorder. I set out to write what I hope |
| 1:16.7 | would be a useful tool by all accounts. It is that. So if you would like a more detailed |
| 1:24.0 | and logically ordered way to go through the things that you hear me say over and over and |
| 1:28.5 | over, go check out the book. You will find it at the anxioustruth.com slash recovery guide. |
| 1:33.8 | Everything you need to know about it, including some samples and how to get it is there. |
| 1:37.4 | And if you have already read the book or are reading it and you are enjoying it and it is helping |
| 1:41.0 | you maybe take a minute and read it and review it on Amazon to be a huge help. Okay, that added |
| 1:46.4 | the way. Look, we're under two minutes and I'm already getting to the topic. I'm pretty proud |
| 1:49.6 | of myself. So let's talk about the idea of not being able to sit still. And for many people |
| 1:55.5 | who are following the podcast and in the social media community, I know that this is a giant, |
| 2:00.4 | giant problem. It's a huge challenge. For many of you, this is a bigger challenge than the |
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