On how to feel less fearful of death
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 15 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 | Hello, you. |
| 0:27.0 | I hope you're okay as you listen to this episode today. |
| 0:30.0 | It's a big one. |
| 0:32.0 | And I imagine you're probably wondering what the heck I'm |
| 0:35.5 | going to say because how on earth do we feel less fearful of our own death? Now this is the 10th episode, the final episode of a mini series where I talk about 10 uncomfortable |
| 0:50.8 | truths of being alive and how we can be more accepting of them and how |
| 0:57.3 | actually as we find ways for these uncomfortable truths to sit a little bit differently within us. |
| 1:05.2 | We can live more wholeheartedly, more fully, more authentically, more freely and less fearfully. |
| 1:12.4 | And this is a big one, right? This is right at the end. freely and less fearfully. |
| 1:12.5 | And this is a big one. |
| 1:14.0 | This is right at the end of the book |
| 1:15.6 | because I really, really wanted people to feel |
| 1:19.6 | like they could trust me to talk about these massive topics. So if you're coming in fresh on this one, |
| 1:27.1 | I promise you, I am going to go gently and I've got some hope like the whole book it's bright yellow I wanted it to feel |
| 1:37.2 | really really hopeful especially when talking about such big things and it's not |
| 1:41.7 | new to you right this is a fear that we are so often |
| 1:46.3 | so aware of and I think if we were to distill so many of our fears down on like an old school Bunsen burner. |
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