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The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

EP 171 - Dealing With Unplanned Exposures and Challenges

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

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

At some point in recovery, every one of us faces unplanned exposures and challenges that life throws at us. This is just part of the deal, so we must accept that. In this episode we'll answer a very common question: "How do I handle an unplanned exposure that I can't practice for?" For full show notes on this episode: https://theanxioustruth.com/171 -------- My books, website, and social media links: https://theanxioustruth.com/links Music credit: Afterglow by Ben Drake (with perm...

Transcript

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0:00.0

What Up Peeps, welcome back to the Anxious Truth.

0:14.2

I am Drew Linsolada, creator and host of this fine podcast.

0:17.8

This is episode number 171-171, today we're going to be talking about unplanned exposures

0:24.8

and challenges that life throw at you and how to approach those.

0:28.8

What you can do with those things.

0:29.8

So welcome back to the show.

0:30.8

I appreciate your time and attention every week.

0:33.0

I am grateful for it.

0:34.0

Thank you so much for your support.

0:36.6

Let's get into this unplanned exposures.

0:39.8

What is that?

0:40.8

That's that thing where life throws it an exposure or a challenge at you that is going

0:44.9

to push you far outside your comfort zone, things that you are terrified still to do.

0:49.8

You haven't worked up to them yet.

0:51.6

You're actively working the recovery thing.

0:53.4

You're doing your work, but you haven't gotten that far yet.

0:55.7

So it's going to push you way beyond where you really are in your progress.

0:59.4

Where you haven't been working the recovery process yet, and it's just going to push you

1:04.5

outside of your comfort zone because you haven't been outside your comfort zone at all.

1:08.6

Both of those things can happen, right?

1:10.2

So that's what we're addressing today.

1:12.4

Couple of things that I want to go over first and foremost.

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