On navigating life's unfairness
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 12 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. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, I hope today's episode finds you well. |
| 0:29.0 | I am actually going to be talking about unfairness today and I'm sat here thinking |
| 0:34.3 | and fully aware that when this episode comes out the book will be with you and that is |
| 0:40.2 | just a wild a wild feeling and I really hope that if you have got your hands on a |
| 0:46.4 | copy that you are thoroughly enjoying it and in these episodes so this is |
| 0:50.8 | episode five of the miniseries talking about each uncomfortable truth and we're going to be talking about life's unfairness but you can flip to the book to talk about this and think about this and learn about this and so much more depth so that you can really put it into practice. |
| 1:07.0 | But this is more of a little insight with some small things to think about on the topic. |
| 1:12.3 | So today's truth that we are addressing is the fact that life isn't fair. |
| 1:19.9 | I'm going to share an excerpt as I have been doing and then a tip or two and how to get a little bit more comfortable with the uncomfortable truth. |
| 1:28.0 | So the truth of it is bad things happen to bad people, bad things happen to good people. |
| 1:32.8 | Bad things happen to good people too. |
| 1:35.8 | Children die. |
| 1:37.2 | Random attacks happen. |
| 1:39.0 | Innocent people get sentenced to death row while the guilty room free. Less qualified candidates |
| 1:45.4 | achieved the promotions, leaving the one who really deserved the job in the |
| 1:50.0 | lurch. Unless you're always winning everything goes your way and things |
| 1:54.3 | constantly fall into the perfect place for you and that'd be amazing then you're |
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