On accepting that some people don't like you
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Uncomfortable Truth: Change Your Life By Taming 10 of Your Mind's Greatest Fears is Anna's 5th book and is set for publication on the 8th August!
Pre-order your copy here and have it delivered straight to your door on publication day.
Here's a teaser from Anna about what to expect in this long-awaited, transformative book.
‘Some people don’t like me”
“Bad things will happen to people I love”
“I’m going to fail”
… these words underpinned my anxieties and nightmares. I bet they feature in yours too.
Our fears are anchored in the unavoidable truths of life; all things reach an end, bad things happen, and we lack the control we crave.
As an experienced psychotherapist, who’s had years of therapy, I realised that ploughing endless energy into trying to control the uncontrollable is keeping us all tired, wired, and worried. Ignoring fears doesn’t make them less true, it makes them more powerful. I decided to try a different tact and it changed my world.
Instead of doing everything I could to ease and avoid life’s uncomfortable truths, I sought a deeper acceptance of them. Through using this approach, my clients and I discovered that fear began to loosen its grip. We were living more intentionally and peacefully.
So, face your fears one a chapter at a time, and discover who you are without worry, doubt and people-pleasing holding you back.
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| 0:00.0 | heading off in the car this summer, think trip. |
| 0:03.0 | TRIP. That's top-up, rest, inspect, prepare. |
| 0:08.0 | Getting organized is everything if you're planning a summer road trip with the kids, having something to keep them entertained, |
| 0:14.7 | and something good to snack on on my secret to in-car contentment. |
| 0:19.2 | And the secret to a safer trip? A little time spent prep in the car. |
| 0:22.8 | Top up your fuel, inspect those tires and prepare for the weather. |
| 0:26.1 | Have a safe trip. |
| 0:27.6 | Search National Highways Trip. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello and welcome to the Therapy Edit Podcast with me Psychotherapist Anna Martha. |
| 0:37.0 | I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and support your emotional well-being. |
| 0:44.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to today's little 10 minute episode of the Therapy Edit. |
| 0:49.4 | Now, over the summer I'm going to do a little series of 10 episodes on each chapter of The Uncomfortable Truth. |
| 0:58.0 | Now this is my new book which is out on August the 15th ago and grab yourself a copy and today the uncomfortable truth |
| 1:06.4 | that I am going to talk about and hopefully give you some ways to come to a |
| 1:12.3 | place of more acceptance on this uncomfortable truth is that some people don't |
| 1:19.3 | like you. |
| 1:21.7 | Can you imagine how differently you would feel if you felt more accepting and at peace with this really uncomfortable truth? |
| 1:29.6 | Think about all the things that you do and think and ruminate over and fill your diary |
| 1:36.0 | with out of worry and fear of what other people think about you and I know for myself how much power this has had over me in my life, |
| 1:46.8 | how much of my resources I have completely drained in order to try and yeah just make sure that people like me now it's okay to want to be likeable in fact it's |
| 1:59.5 | important because it gets us not it keeps this kind it keeps us thoughtful, it keeps us empathetic, it keeps us seeking to connect with people, |
| 2:09.6 | but when, when this uncomfortable truth that some people won't like us becomes something that we really fear, |
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