Mastering the Paradox of Acceptance and Change With Anxiety

Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Are you on the side of accepting and embracing who you are now or do you crave more change? Do you think that change is always a good thing? Join me for a discussion on acceptance and change to see which side you land on. I hope to give you a new perspective to help you live your best life!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Therapy in a Nutschell podcast. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family therapist,
0:06.0	and it's my mission to create easy to understand educational content about therapeutic skills and topics that anyone can use in their daily life.
0:14.0	Stay tuned till the end of the video to learn more about my mental health courses, discounts, and other news related to therapy in a nutshell.
0:21.6	I hope you enjoy the episode. Each podcast episode comes from a corresponding video you can find on the Therapy in a Nutshell YouTube channel.
0:30.6	Also, these podcasts are educational and don't replace the advice or direction you may be receiving from a therapist or other health professional.
0:38.3	Alright, let's jump in.
0:40.3	One day I was feeling super stressed out about work.
0:43.3	I was transitioning from just being a therapist to being a business owner,
0:48.3	and the legal and financial and emotional issues were really stressing me out.
0:53.3	So I wasn't sleeping that well. I got up really
0:55.6	early one morning to start working through my problems and I was just feeling more and more anxious.
1:02.4	So as the sun was rising, I started walking down the road. I thought, if I can only get some
1:07.3	exercise, I can make this anxiety go away. So I started walking, but I started
1:12.3	feeling more and more anxious. So then I thought, oh, if I can just use some breathing exercises,
1:17.9	I can make this anxiety go away. So I tried to start breathing slowly and deeply, but now I was
1:25.5	feeling more and more anxious, almost panicky. And then I started to worry that
1:29.8	I wasn't going to be able to control my anxiety. And that was just one more problem to deal with. So
1:34.3	basically, the more I tried to make my stress go away, the more I sent a message to my brain,
1:40.4	that anxiety was actually dangerous. And that made my brain more anxious. Now I'm a
1:45.5	therapist, I know lots of skills and tricks to decrease anxiety, but at that
1:49.8	moment nothing I was trying was working. Why? Because I had forgotten that underlying
1:56.0	your ability to change and heal and grow and work through emotions, the foundation of that ability
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