How does an anxiety therapist, an anxiety podcaster, who is also a former anxious person,

talk about this stuff all day long and not get re-triggered into anxiety?

Well, it's a question I get asked all the time, and this week on The Anxious Truth,

I'm going to answer it, so let's get to it.

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is episode 345 of the podcast. We are recording in June of 2026. For those of you watching or listening in the future, today we're going to talk about how a former anxious person, that's me, I used to suffer from panic disorder, agoraphobia,

OCD, depression for many years of my life on and off. I've talked about that. How does somebody like me wind up talking about anxiety all day long as an author on the topic, a podcaster, an anxiety

therapist, and not get re-triggered into a state of anxiety.

People ask that all the time, how do I stay recovered? Drew, aren't you worried that it's going to come back? Aren't you worried that you're going to get resentitized? Aren't you worried that you're going to have a setback? You talk about it all day long, and the answer is, no, I don't worry about that for even a second. It's not a concern in any way. And I want to tell you why, because I think it really matters.

For those of you who are still working on the recovery process or the desensitization process,

you probably really care about how I manage to stay recovered. So we're going to talk about that.

Before we get into it, just a very quick reminder that The Anxious Truth is way more than just

this one video or this one

podcast episode. If you go to my website at the anxious truth.com, you will find all the other goodies.

I would strongly urge you to take advantage of all or most of them, especially the Disordered

podcast. The Anxious Truth I do every other week. Disorder comes out every week. I do that with

Josh Fletcher. He's an anxiety therapist in the UK.

You can find that at disorder.fm. But if you check out the anxious truth.com and disorder.com. You'll find

all the other resources. Take advantage of them. They are here for you. So let's get into this.

How could I, a former anxious person, spend all of my time talking about anxiety into expensive

microphones and expensive cameras and on social media and making posts and making reels

and writing books about it and talking to therapy clients all day long who are suffering

with anxiety disorders? How does a person like me not wind up anxious again? Because I think if you're

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