Welcome back to the Anxious Truth. This is episode number one three six one hundred thirty six. Welcome back to this show. Today we have a special guest, my new friend, Jenna Overbaugh.

Jenna is a licensed professional therapist and counselor. She specializes in treating anxiety OCD and other anxiety disorders and she also happens to be a certified personal trainer.

So she's also in the fitness game, which is great because today we're going to talk about the link between fitness, diet, exercise and anxiety disorders and we're going to have a discussion about something called orthorexia.

Orthorexia is a disorder that's kind of an eating disorder, definitely part of the anxiety disorder complex where people become convinced that they must eat specific foods to be okay to achieve their fitness goals or to be okay to achieve their health goals.

Orthorexia is a real thing and it actually is a little bit more prevalent in the anxiety community than we would think. So Jenna and I are going to talk about that because it is something that she deals with on a regular basis on an inpatient and a residential facility.

So that's going to be super interesting. Before we bring Jenna on and get cooking, I you know what I'm going to do. You know what I'm going to do. In fact, this past week that I'm recording the audiobook version of my book is out. So I'm super happy that I don't have to answer the question when's the audiobook version coming out. It's out.

Anyway, I'm going to tell you about my book. It is called The Anxious Truth, a step by step guide to understanding an overcoming panic anxiety and an agoraphobia. It's 70,000 words. It's 400 printed pages. It's essentially everything you've ever heard me say on social media on a podcast about recovering from an anxiety disorder just laid out in a specific sequence and in much greater detail. So it's like taking a course on how to solve the problem and overcome the issue.

So if you have not checked it out, you can find it at the anxious truth.com slash recovery guide. If you have checked it out, you've read it. You like it. You're using it. It's helping you. Maybe go over to Amazon and write a review. I would appreciate it. Anyway, okay. So let's get cooking Jenna overbos here. We're going to talk about fitness and anxiety. We're going to talk about exercise and anxiety diet and anxiety. We're going to talk about orthorexia, which is a super interesting topic. So let's get rolling.

All righty. Here we are. Jenna overbaw. Welcome.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm really passionate about this topic. And I think we're going to talk about some really great stuff.

Yeah, I think so too. Thanks for coming on. I appreciate it. Like you and I just kind of accidentally bumped into each other online. It appears.

Yeah. Well, I love podcasts. I'm a podcast junkie and we'll get into it later. But I have one of my own. And as I was.

As I often do just kind of browsing new anxiety podcasts, they came across yours. And I've been loving it. So I'm transitioning right now into private practice and just trying to consume as much kind of resources as I can and podcasts are a great way to do that. And you've been super helpful. It's been an amazing time listening to you.

Let's talk about your podcasts for a second, because the thing that I will admit I have not heard any of it yet, because I just kind of stumbled upon you, but it's called all the hard things. I mean, come on.

Yes, it's a great thing. We talk about all the hard things.

So really, like you just stuck out when I when I looked, I'm like, oh, this is here. I need to be friends with Jenna here, because clearly you when I speak very similar language when it comes to dealing with anxiety disorders, which is awesome.

I have been involved in residential treatment facilities, right. So let's give people an idea where you're coming from. Like what's your background on this.

Yeah. So I feel like I've always been a little bit of an anxious person, a little bit of an anxious kid. And then when I went into college, my psych 101 course, I learned about exposure and response prevention as a potential treatment for disorders.

I loved it. I fell in love with the idea of it. I thought it was so super cool. And that led me into my passion to work with the anxiety and OCD population.

So right away, right at the beginning of my college undergrad experience, I started to work with that population.

I went into grad school at Chelsea University in Baltimore, where I specialized in the treatment and research of people who have OCD and anxiety.

And yeah, upon graduation immediately, I got into what I have always wanted to do, which is residential treatment for OCD and anxiety.

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