On how to feel less fearful of bad things happening
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 14 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 was published on the 8th August.
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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 | This podcast is sponsored by Booper Dental Care, where you'll find a calm welcoming atmosphere with |
| 0:06.8 | unrushed appointments and clear communication. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to the therapy edit podcast with me psych therapist Anna Martha. |
| 0:17.0 | I'll be bringing you weekly 10 minute episodes to encourage and support your |
| 0:22.2 | emotional well-being. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to a little 10 minute episode from my mini series of the Uncomfortable Truths. |
| 0:32.0 | And in this series I've been talking about lots of |
| 0:35.5 | different uncomfortable truths of lives such as some people don't like you bad things will happen |
| 0:40.1 | which is one we're doing today. You will fail and then we're going to move into some more over the next |
| 0:47.8 | couple of episodes but today we are talking about the uncomfortable truth of life that bad things will happen. |
| 0:56.1 | And I'm going to talk to you about how it can become so liberating to actually, |
| 1:02.0 | instead of fighting this truth, instead of trying to find and manipulate |
| 1:05.6 | and control all the ways to protect ourselves from bad things happening and ultimately |
| 1:12.2 | sometimes even making our lives smaller because of it. |
| 1:16.1 | As we become more accepting of this truth, it actually does the opposite, it opens us up. |
| 1:20.9 | It allows us to live less fearful still with all the same risk. But that's what life is for, right? This is life is for living and I think there are so many people who will look over their lives and think |
| 1:33.8 | man I wish I was less scared. I wish I'd lived in less fear of the bad things I |
| 1:41.1 | worried about happening that never happened and that's what I want to be I want to get to the end of my life and I want to think yeah |
| 1:46.4 | Despite all of this the rough tough stuff that happened. I lived as fully as possible. |
| 1:54.0 | And so bad things will happen. |
| 1:57.0 | That is the truth of it. |
| 1:58.0 | And if we're so honest, that's the topics of our nightmares and our fears and our anxieties and our |
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