Doods and Doodets Welcome back to the Anxious Truth.

This is episode number 161-161 on a very, very early morning of Wednesday and June of 2021.

If you're listening from the future, today we're going to talk about the temporary nature,

the temporary nature of relief and comfort that you get when you avoid and escape from

the things that scare you, then I'm just going to talk from my own experience and the experiences

of many, many others that I have the privilege of watching go through the recovery process

every single day.

And this isn't what I plan to talk about in this week's podcast episode, but this is

what's on my mind and I'm going to start doing more of this.

They might be shorter, but I'm going to just going to talk about what I'm feeling sometimes.

And today I'm really feeling this topic of like the temporary nature and really recognizing

the temporary nature, temporary comfort, temporary relief, and recovery what we talk about

all the time is choosing temporary discomfort for permanent freedom, but I want to talk about

the flip side of this because what I thought I would talk about today is really like what

does it take to recover?

I want to tell people what does it really take and part of it when I was thinking about

that before I fired up this microphone, I said, well, sometimes what it takes is really

getting angry at this and getting fed up at this and just having enough.

I've had enough of living this way and I know how to get to that point.

I have had enough of this and that was in my bones, man, like in my bones, I had enough

of this.

I was done with doing it that way.

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