Hey there, I'm Drew Linsolada, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. Welcome to episode 260 of the podcast.

This week on The Anxious Truth, we're going to look at the constant, never-ending cycle of checking in with yourself

and scanning to make sure you're okay. This is something that many, many anxious people get stuck in.

They find that they are constantly checking in with themselves, constantly looking for anxiety symptoms,

sensations, changes in their bodies, constantly scanning for scary thoughts, disturbing thoughts,

things that might trigger them, and it can be exhausting.

So when I asked for podcasts, topic suggestions recently in my Facebook group, this is one of them.

Somebody asked, how do you stop the constant scanning cycle? So today we're going to talk about that.

But just a quick programming look before we do that, just want to remind you that The Anxious Truth is more than just this particular podcast episode.

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So I'm going to try to make this short today and yes, I'm recording from outside because it's beautiful and I'm really trying to take advantage of that lately.

It's a kind of part of self-care to get out in the outside under the blue sky and de-stress a little bit.

And I can sit here with you guys. I have to wear my sunglasses. I'm very sorry, but I have huge glare problems when I'm outside.

And I can just sit for hopefully 10 minutes informally and just chat with you and I find it to be somewhat relaxing and I enjoy doing these things with you guys.

So today we're going to talk about the scanning cycle, the constant cycle of scanning and checking in.

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