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

EP 180 - Anxiety Issues: Are You Trying To Recover BEFORE Recovery?

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

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

One of the more common mistakes, especially in early recovery, is trying to actually reach a recovered state before you do the recovery work. If you're trying to figure out a way to not be afraid so that you can start your recovery, you're putting the cart before the horse. If you're hoping that you'll find some magic words that will make all this hard stuff "click" so you can get started, you're doing it backwards. You must do the recovery things first, then you "get it.” It "clicks" after y...

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0:00.0

This episode of The Anxious Truth is brought to you by me.

0:03.6

Because I'm not just a podcaster, I'm also an author.

0:06.6

I've written several useful books and anxiety and anxiety recovery,

0:10.1

and I know you're going to find them helpful.

0:12.1

You can find them on my website at TheAnxiousTruth.com.

0:26.2

Welcome back everybody.

0:27.5

Welcome to The Anxious Truth.

0:29.2

This is episode number 18180.

0:32.7

Entitled, are you trying to be recovered before you do recovery?

0:37.2

And this episode is being recorded in October of 2021, actually on Halloween.

0:41.5

So it's a very spooky episode.

0:43.6

I'm kidding, it's not a spooky episode at all.

0:45.2

It has nothing to do with Halloween, but it does have a lot to do with anxiety and anxiety

0:48.7

recovery, because that's what we talk about on this podcast.

0:51.7

Anyway, welcome.

0:52.4

I am Drew Lins, a lot of creator and host of The Anxious Truth.

0:54.8

I am glad that you are here.

0:56.0

If this is your first time welcome, whether you are watching or listening,

0:59.3

I appreciate that you're here.

1:00.5

If you've been here before, then welcome back.

1:02.8

I'm also really glad that you're here.

1:04.5

So today, we're going to address what seems like a silly topic.

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