This week on The Anxious Truth, we have some new music for the podcast and we're going

to be talking about why you got to do your exposures and meet your challenges even

on the days when you don't want to do it, so let's get at it.

Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth.

This is episode number 266 of The Podcast.

We are recording in July of 2023 in case you are listening from the future.

I am Drew Linselata, creator and host of The Anxious Truth.

If this is your first time here, The Anxious Truth is the podcast and the YouTube channel.

It covers all things anxiety, anxiety disorders, and anxiety recovery.

So if you've stumbled upon us for the first time today, welcome.

I'm glad you're here and I hope you find it all helpful or useful in some way.

And of course, if you are a returning listener or viewer, welcome back.

And you're here as always.

This week we're going to talk about a very common anxiety recovery mistake that gets made

in this community all the time.

And that is, if you have decided that you kind of want to get better the way I talk about

getting better, you want to do exposures, you want to meet your challenges, you want to

stop avoiding, you want to face your fears, that's really awesome.

But one of the more common mistakes that I see people make is waiting till they have good

days or better days before they stop avoiding before they face their fears, before they

meet those challenges, before they do those exposures.

And while I can understand why you would do that, that's not terribly helpful because

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