What up everybody. Welcome back to the anxious truth. This is a podcast episode number 177177.

I am Drew Linselotter, creator and host of this fine podcast. What I hope is a fine podcast.

Today we are going to talk about something called the discomfort of hesitation.

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The discomfort of hesitation. What is this all about? What am I talking about?

So so much of this topic that we talk about all the time, anxiety, anxiety disorders recovery, all of that stuff.

Discomfort and being uncomfortable is a huge part of that. It's huge. Like it's just woven into everything we talk about.

So sometimes we talk specifically about discomfort and having to deal with it. Sometimes it's just implied in the background.

But it's kind of always here, right? There's always discomfort. We're always talking about that.

So let's talk about that and let's talk about why the discomfort that's caused by hesitation and by hesitation.

I mean, sort of starting and stopping on your exposures, you know, I'm going to do it. And then you're back away. I'm going to do it in a back away.

Also creates discomfort. So let's talk about discomfort as it fits into the topic in general.

Like if you decide that you are going to do this hard stuff, right? And you're going to do exposures and you're going to go toward your fear.

And you're going to intentionally do scary things in order to like learn to habituate to them and learn that you can tolerate it and navigate through it.

All the stuff we talk about, right? If you do that, you are choosing discomfort. There is going to be discomfort.

You're going to be uncomfortably going to be afraid. You're going to feel vulnerable. You're going to be really doing hard and scary things.

Right? So we always want to acknowledge that there will be discomfort as part of the recovery process. Always acknowledge it. Always always. You do hard things. So expect to be uncomfortable on the flip side of that.

If you choose to not do that, which everybody has a right to do, right? While I'm talking about this, I might as well mention it.

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