I've read all the books, but I can't seem to get it.

Or I keep listening and I just can't seem to bring myself to do it.

Or when I get really anxious, I just can't bring myself to bully let go.

For some members of our community, some members of this audience, there are reasons that the lessons of floating, mindful acceptance, willful tolerance, exposure are just not accessible.

Either if I am anxious at all, I have already failed.

The second one is, if I allow myself to fully feel these difficult emotions,

well, I'm going to show that, and then that may make emotions or difficult experiences for the

other people around me and that's not allowed hello everybody welcome back to the anxious

truth podcast this is episode 338 we are recording in February of 2026. Actually, we're recording during

a blizzard. It's all kinds of fun. Today we're going to talk about what makes it so hard for some

people to access the lessons that we find in recovery or to even engage with the process at all.

There are, there's a million reasons why that might happen, but I want to touch on two of them today. They may resonate with you. Anyway, I am Drew Insalata, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. I am a therapist practicing in New York, specializing the treatment of anxiety and anxiety disorders. I'm also a former sufferer of the very things we talk about in this podcast and better now. Thank you very much. An author, psychoeducator, an advocate, social media dude. And yeah. Now before we get into that, just a quick reminder that the anxious truth is more than just this podcast episode or this video. And by the way, if you're watching on YouTube this week, I'm sorry there's no video. I just didn't have time to edit. It's more than just this podcast episode or this video. It is all the 337 other podcast episodes, the books that I've written, the social media content. So much of it is free. In fact, most of it is free. A couple of low-cost workshops that you might be able to access. That's all on my website at the Anxioustruth.com. And then there's the disordered podcast that I do every Friday with Josh Fletcher. He's an anxiety therapist in the UK. That's a great podcast. So if you're not listening to Disordered, check out Disordered.fm. And you'll find that one there. And if you are enjoying what you hear on The Anxious Truth and you want to be able to talk about what you hear, or what you're watching on the YouTube channel or interact with me a little bit more and interact with people who are also sharing this experience, maybe interact with me and

Josh a little more. You can go to disorder.fm and find the community tab. That's where I am hanging

out these days to really interact with the audience. You do not have to do that. You are not missing

out on something amazing in secret.

I promise we would never do that.

But if you're interested in a little bit more interaction, head to disorder.

com and check the community tab.

So today we're going to talk about the idea that overcoming an anxiety disorder,

using principles of acceptance as opposed to control, mindful, you know, in the moment

acceptance, surfing through the hardest parts of the experience, the peak of the experience.

We're using principles of facing and tolerating and floating and we're using exposure.

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