This week on The Anxious Truth, we're going to look at the concept of active recovery,

because there's no immune response that fixes an anxiety disorder while you just wait and hope to get better.

Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is podcast episode number 265

recorded in July of 2023, case you're listening from the future.

I am Drew Lynn Salada, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. This is the podcast that

covers all things anxiety, anxiety disorders, and anxiety recovery. If this is your first time here,

and you just stumbled upon the podcast or the YouTube channel, I hope you find the content helpful

or useful in some way. And of course, if you're a returning listener, welcome back. I'm always

glad you're here. This week we're going to do something a little bit different. We're going to

revisit an episode of the podcast from way back in April of 2015. It was different back then.

It had a different name back then. The podcast was called that anxiety guy, which is a name that I

always really hated. So we're going to look at a foundational concept and recovery. And that is

that recovery from an anxiety disorder is an active process. You can't just sit passively and

wait and rest and hope that something will change. It requires action on your part. There's

behavioral change as part of the recovery process. So this week we're going to take a look at

clips from the original episode 11 of the podcast from way back in 2015. I'm going to play a couple

of the highlights and I'm going to pop back in here in 2023 to expand upon some things, clarify

some things, and to add some details that maybe I missed back then before we get into that,

just a quick reminder that the anxious truth is more than just this podcast episode or this YouTube

video. There's 264 other podcast episodes and many more YouTube videos. There's a ton of free

social media content. There are workshops and courses about anxiety and anxiety recovery.

And there are three books that I've published up to this point on anxiety and anxiety recovery.

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