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

EP 208 - The Emotional Rollercoaster of Anxiety Recovery and How To Get Off

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

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

“Recovery is not linear”. How many times have you heard this? There are ups and downs from day to day or even hour to hour. Some days it seems like we’re killing it. Other days we feel frustrated, impatient and discouraged. This is difficult to navigate. It confuses us. It also triggers an emotional reaction in many cases. This week on The Anxious Truth let’s take a look at how that emotional reaction can create a pattern that will have you swinging from on...

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This week on The Anxious Truth we're going to talk about the emotional roller coaster of recovery

0:04.4

and some ways that we might be able to avoid at least some of it.

0:16.3

Hello everybody welcome back to The Anxious Truth this is podcast episode number 208 entitled

0:21.8

Avoiding the emotional roller coaster in recovery. For those of you who are new to the podcast

0:26.5

of this is your first time here. I am Drew Lynn Salada creator and host of The Anxious Truth.

0:30.7

This is the podcast that covers all things anxiety and anxiety recovery. So if you're having

0:35.2

issues with things like panic attacks or health anxiety or social anxiety or agor phobia

0:40.4

then this is the place for you. I'm glad you're here. Welcome if you are a returning listener or

0:44.4

viewer on YouTube. Welcome back always glad that you're here this week. We are going to talk about

0:50.0

the idea that sometimes in recovery we can be on a real emotional roller coaster. That's a real thing.

0:56.5

And there are some ways that we can sort of be aware of some bad habits we develop that can

1:01.2

help us avoid at least some of that. There's going to be emotions in recovery but it doesn't have

1:05.9

to be this crazy swing back and forth. So we'll get into that in a second. Before we do I just want

1:10.3

to remind you of a couple of things. Number one, The Anxious Truth is more than just this podcast

1:14.8

episode or this video. If this is your first time here, I would like you to know that there are

1:20.0

way more resources. There are three really great books and anxiety and anxiety recovery that I've

1:23.9

written. There is a free morning email newsletter and a mini podcast that comes out every week day

1:28.6

morning. That's totally free. There's all of my social media content. That's totally free and

1:33.1

there's another 207 episodes of the podcast before this one. Also free so you can find all of

1:40.0

that on my website at theanxioustruth.com go value yourself of all the resources. And if you are

1:45.8

enjoying my work and it's helping you in some way and we'd like to find a way to support it and

1:49.6

help keep it advertising and sponsorship free, which is my goal. All the ways you can help do that

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