On how to feel more comfortable with being misunderstood
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 19 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 today's special episode of the therapy edit where |
| 0:31.0 | I am working through in 10 episodes all of the different |
| 0:35.8 | uncomfortable truths of life and how we can become a little bit more comfortable |
| 0:40.9 | with them and as a result live more fully and wholeheartedly and |
| 0:46.0 | authentically and most importantly with less fear. So these uncomfortable trees are taken from my brand new book which as I record this episode is not yet out |
| 0:59.9 | but it will be very soon and I'm counting down the days to see this book in your hands because I'm so excited. |
| 1:08.0 | I don't think I've ever been so excited, although maybe I have with the other books. It's hard to remember sometimes, isn't it, |
| 1:14.6 | exactly how you felt, but I wrote this book fervently. I think that's a word in two weeks and it just poured out onto my laptop with a real desire |
| 1:26.8 | to share some words that have just really sat with me in more recent years. So yeah, here goes. Today we are talking |
| 1:38.2 | about the uncomfortable truth of being misunderstood. |
| 1:43.0 | And I'm going to read you a little bit of an excerpt, |
| 1:45.0 | as I have been doing in the other episodes. |
| 1:48.0 | And then I'm going to share with you a tip or two |
| 1:50.0 | on how to get a little bit more comfortable with this uncomfortable truth. |
| 1:54.1 | But this is such a big one for me. |
| 1:56.5 | I've got to be honest with you, |
| 1:58.6 | being misunderstood over the years |
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