EP 176 - Compassion And The Fear Of Fear with Joshua Fletcher

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

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Therapist and author Joshua Fletcher returns to the podcast this week. In this episode, Drew and Josh talk about understanding the fear of fear, compassion and its role in exposures and recovery, and why Josh’s course is so heavy on the concepts of compassion and proper reactions. Drew and Josh also engage in a slightly spicy discussion about all the ‘dangerous’ courses out there that should be avoided. For full show notes on this episode: https://theanxioustruth.com/176 -------- My books, we...

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back everybody. Welcome to the Anxious Truth. This is episode number 176. If you're
0:14.7	watching on video, you got to see my guest air guitaring his way through the intro. Welcome back
0:21.4	to the show. Today we have a special guest in the studio. And by studio, I mean on Zoom all
0:25.8	the way from the UK, my friend, frequent collaborator, respected expert, as usual, Joshua Fletcher is
0:31.2	here. What up, Josh? What up, dude? How you doing? It's lovely to be back on here. I love your
0:36.8	podcast. I love everything that you do. And our chats are always fun and productive. And
0:42.8	well, at least I think we are. The listeners might be like, well, these guys talking about again.
0:47.9	No, they seem to get a lot out of it. Everybody seems to enjoy when we do this. So full disclosure
0:52.5	on the technical level, we're trying video here, because this is going to be a video podcast. So
0:56.6	bear with me if things get a little bit wonky, but the content will be good as always. So we today,
1:01.1	we're going to talk about Josh just released a new course. So I want to talk about that course.
1:05.6	It is targeted at panic disorder and agoraphobia and other anxiety problems. As you guys are
1:10.4	well aware, if you listen to this podcast, you know what we're talking about. I want to talk about
1:14.4	the course itself, specifically of course, but I really want to talk about why that course has to
1:18.7	be done. And and some of the stuff. Yeah, some of the stuff that's out there that maybe might not
1:23.8	be so helpful. So we're going to talk about Josh's course and maybe we'll we'll we'll veer
1:27.3	into a little bit of a spicy discussion, which Josh had no idea we were going to do.
1:32.8	Let's see how many friends and enemies we can make today. No, I won't be having that really.
1:37.1	So anyway, tell us about the course.
1:39.9	The course is called stop fearing fear with anxiety, Josh. And the impetus behind it was to
1:50.4	obviously help people with anxiety, fear of sensations that your bread and butter stuff through
1:57.8	agoraphobia, things like that. And do it in a way that's step by step interactive and you can
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