On the real reason you don't feel good enough
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 16 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. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello, I hope you're well. |
| 0:27.0 | I am recording this in the depths of the Summer Holiday |
| 0:30.0 | and I have got literally 10 minutes until the kids barrel in and it's not so quiet. |
| 0:36.2 | So it's all going on back here. But today I'm so excited to share another uncomfortable truth. |
| 0:43.4 | This is uncomfortable truth, number six of 10, |
| 0:46.6 | and you'll have to listen back for the other ones. |
| 0:48.3 | But this one is something that people utter all the time. I'm not good enough. I don't feel like I'm good |
| 0:54.6 | enough. How many times have you thought or felt that, well, this uncomfortable truth |
| 0:59.7 | is I am not good enough. And I'm going to share a little excerpt and then I'm going to share |
| 1:05.4 | some tips on how to get more comfortable with this uncomfortable truth. So it goes a bit like this. |
| 1:12.4 | You are not good enough. Well that really contrasts with the |
| 1:16.6 | positive mantras printed on the t-shirt and the cursive affirmations that skip across |
| 1:21.0 | your social media feed doesn't it? It's a bit of an anti-affirmation. |
| 1:24.8 | Normally we're kind of used to that echo of people saying and things saying, you are good |
| 1:31.1 | enough. No, you're doing great, but actually the uncomfortable truth that I want to talk about is that actually you're not good enough. You're not good enough. |
| 1:41.0 | Now whether you have positive affirmations on every single mirror in your house or not, |
| 1:46.0 | you may find that no matter how many times you repeat them to yourself, |
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