On how to feel less guilty for not being present
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 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 | 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. |
| 0:27.0 | Today is episode 4 of a little 10 episode series, |
| 0:31.0 | all 10 minutes on an uncomfortable truth. We've talked about the |
| 0:36.2 | uncomfortable truth of people not liking us. We've talked about the |
| 0:41.2 | uncomfortable truth, the fact that we will fail, and we will hurt people that we care about. |
| 0:46.0 | And also people that we don't care about, we're going to hurt people on our way through life. |
| 0:50.0 | And today we're going to talk about the uncomfortable truth of the fact that we cannot be fully present all the time. |
| 0:57.0 | Now I've taken these from my new book, The Uncomfortable Truth, which is all about changing your life by |
| 1:05.0 | taming ten of your mind's greatest fears. Now I truly believe that so often the |
| 1:12.2 | truths of life the fact that bad things will happen |
| 1:15.6 | that we will fail that some people won't like us that we will die that we will |
| 1:19.6 | lose that we can't always be present in our lives. |
| 1:25.0 | All of those truths I feel like we we try so hard to do our best to make people like us to that bad things won't happen to protect ourselves to |
| 1:36.7 | imagine all those worst case scenarios so that we can you know get to a worse should |
| 1:41.7 | anything bad happen we're like it's okay I knew this was coming I fully prepared myself when actually in truth we know that this is an exhausting way to live we are constantly constantly worrying, ruminating, we're feeling anxious, |
| 1:55.3 | we're feeling burnt out from the people pleasing and the perfectionism and the guilt. |
| 2:00.8 | Today's episode is on the uncomfortable truth of the fact that we can't be fully present all the time. |
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