How do I accept anxiety? This week on The Anxious Truth, we're continuing a little mini-series

on how to accept anxiety by looking at the need to open up to other options when you're triggered.

So let's get at it.

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is episode 310 of the podcast. We are recording in January of 2025. I am Drew Linsalada. I am a therapist practicing pre-licensed under supervision as of January 2025, specializing in the area of anxiety and anxiety disorders.

I am a three-time author on this topic, a podcaster, a advocate, a psychoeducator, and a

former sufferer for many years of my life on and off, but thankfully doing better now.

Thank you very much.

And today on The Anxious Truth, we're going to talk about the idea that we need to be able to open up to other options before we can actually say that we are accepting anxiety.

So, of course, if this is your first time here listening to The Anxious Truth as a podcast or watching as a YouTube video, then welcome.

I hope you find which you get here useful

today and applicable in your own anxiety recovery journey. And of course, if you are a returning

listener, then welcome back. I appreciate you spending your time with me every two weeks,

as always. So let us get back to it. How do I accept anxiety? What are the steps? This is what we started

talking about last week on episode 309 of the podcast. What are the steps to accept anxiety? Because while

you might want to adopt acceptance or surrender or willful tolerance or floating, you might not really

even understand what that looks like,

and you cannot even imagine how you can accept the thing that you really hate, and you're looking

for steps. And if you haven't listened to episode 309 of the podcast, which we did two weeks ago,

you should go check that out because it lays the foundation for this one. So here's the thing.

There are, in fact, no steps, but there is a framework. And like I said in the last

episode, for this little series, we're using the act trifix, tri flex, which has been made famous by

Dr. Russ Harris. He's an Australian physician who does a lot of work in acceptance and commitment

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