This week on the Anxious Truth, we're talking about motivation and anxiety recoveries,

specifically the myth of motivation.

You don't have to feel like doing a thing to do a thing.

Hello everybody, welcome back to the Anxious Truth.

This is episode number 270 of the podcast, recorded in August of 2023.

I'm Drew Lins, a lot of creator and host of the Anxious Truth,

the podcast that covers all things, anxiety, anxiety disorders, and anxiety recovery.

If you are new to this podcast or this YouTube channel, welcome.

I hope you find what we're doing here helpful and useful in some way.

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

Always glad that you're here.

Today we're going to talk about the topic of recovery and motivation in recovery.

When you are struggling to overcome an anxiety disorder,

many people will come back to the topic of motivation.

I know what I need to do Drew.

I'm just having a hard time getting motivated to do it.

So I really want to look at the idea of motivation, what it means, and really what it doesn't mean.

Because motivation, the way we tend to think of it, is largely a myth.

Or if nothing else, we kind of have it backwards.

So we're going to go through that today in what I hope will be a relatively short podcast episode.

But I've promised that before and then gone off to Rails.

Anyway, before we get into today's topic, just a quick reminder, as always,

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