How Victimhood's Illusion of Safety Hinders Your Anxiety Recovery
The Anxiety Guy Podcast
Dennis Simsek
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this thought-provoking session, we are diving in to the complex relationship between |
| 0:07.6 | embracing a victimhood mindset and its impact on your anxiety recovery. |
| 0:16.5 | While it's natural to seek safety and validation |
| 0:20.1 | in identifying as a victim in response to real adversities, this stance can often become a comfort zone that limits |
| 0:30.4 | personal growth and healing. So today we're going to explore how stepping |
| 0:37.5 | out of the victim role can empower you, challenge your fears, and foster resilience. |
| 0:46.6 | Are you ready? |
| 0:48.0 | Let's go. Welcome to the Anxiety Guy Podcast where we delve deep into the heart of anxiety |
| 1:00.0 | providing you with the tools, insights, and inspiration to reclaim your life from the |
| 1:06.9 | grips of fear and uncertainty. I'm your host Dennis Simsek, a former anxiety sufferer turned anxiety healer, and each week we will explore proven strategies, share personal stories, and create more than anxiety moments towards inner peace and empowerment. |
| 1:27.0 | Get ready to break free from the chains of anxiety and step into a life filled with purpose, joy, and unshakable |
| 1:37.3 | confidence. |
| 1:39.3 | This is The Anxiety Guide Podcast and and your Path to Liberation, starts now. |
| 1:45.6 | This podcast episode is brought to you by the Health Anxiety Program, a 12-week deep dive into the |
| 1:58.3 | root causes of your health anxiety. You can find this powerful program at the |
| 2:04.4 | anxiety guide.com today. And friends, we are diving into the role, and it is a role, of victimhood when it comes to anxiety and anxiety recovery. |
| 2:22.0 | Now, victimhood can be a path to safety and this doesn't always |
| 2:30.5 | become front and center for us. We're not very mindful that victimhood is a path to safety |
| 2:38.8 | until someone shows up and tells you that. Because we tend to revert back to victimhood when something |
| 2:47.9 | doesn't go our way. Because in a sense it's a safety response. We are so very familiar with identifying and feeling that victimhood. |
| 3:01.0 | However, let me tell you from my own experience, okay? |
| 3:06.6 | The more often you step outside of victimhood in those very moments that you want to crawl back in is when you truly start to move |
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