How To Calm Your Anxious Feelings | Ep 326

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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If you're struggling with anxiety and searching for ways of calming your feelings, this episode is for you. I break down why the most popular strategies for calming your feelings - like using logic to talk yourself out of anxiety, trying to replace negative emotions with positive ones, attempting to control your body's responses, or avoiding triggers - often backfire when you're dealing with anxiety disorders. Drawing from mindfulness principles and acceptance-based therapy approaches, I expl...

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0:00.0	How can you calm your feelings, especially feelings like anxiety or fear? Nobody wants to feel
0:05.8	anxious or afraid or uncomfortable in any way. So I totally understand why people ask this question,
0:11.1	especially anxious people who are dealing with anxiety disorders or chronic states of anxiety.
0:15.7	It's not a crime to want to calm down. Today on the Anxious Truth podcast, we're going to look at
0:20.2	how to calm your feelings. Or accurately, we're going to look at how to calm your
0:21.1	feelings. Or accurately, we're going to look at why the usual ways that we try to calm those
0:26.0	uncomfortable feelings tend not to work, and then we're going to look at a way that does tend
0:30.1	to have good results, except it's much harder to do and takes longer. So let's get to that right now.
0:42.7	Thank you. So let's get to that right now. Hello, everybody.
0:43.7	Welcome back to the Anxious Treat podcast.
0:45.6	This is episode 326.
0:47.5	We are recording in September of 2025, in case you're listening from the future.
0:52.7	I'm Drew Linzalata.
0:54.0	I'm creator and host of The Anxious
0:55.1	Truth. I'm a therapist specializing in the area of anxiety and anxiety disorders in New York.
0:59.6	I'm also a former sufferer of the very problems that I talk about on this podcast, though
1:03.8	much better now, a three-time author on the topic, social media dude, psychoeducator, advocate,
1:09.1	guy with an expensive bike. And today we're going to talk
1:11.8	about how to calm your feelings, specifically the feelings that you fear and hate. Now, if you're
1:17.7	new to the anxious truth and you just stumbled upon this YouTube video or this podcast episode,
1:22.1	welcome. I hope you find what we do here to be helpful or useful in some way. And of course,
1:25.9	if you are a returning viewer or
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