Owning It Bonus: Common Mind Traps With Day to Day Anxiety

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I had some time to spare and rather than relax I recorded this quick little episode on the common mind traps that we might fall into that give rise to stress and anxiety in our day to day lives. For example, a big one is 'catastrophizing' (I'm using a 'z' in that word for US listeners). So maybe you're not really struggling to get your head off the pillow with anxiety, but maybe you find that there's a low level anxiety that's just kind of always there and getting slightly in the way of your life. If that's the case, you may be experiencing some of the common mind traps that we'll discuss. This is more of a dip into CBT which is one of my essential tools for managing and owning my anxiety on an ongoing basis.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column.
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0:32.3	Hello, dear listeners, and welcome to this very special episode of Only It, the Anxiety podcast. I say very special. It's just a bonus special. it's not very special, but I had a free day,
0:39.3	which you think I might just chill out for, but my dog Bear is in daycare and usually
0:44.3	I don't get much time to myself. I sound like a complaining parent. I don't have any kids,
0:49.3	but Bear, if you follow me on Instagram at Caroline Forre and you'll know that Bear is pretty full on.
0:54.7	So while he's not here, I'm taking advantage of the space and the quiet time.
0:59.6	And I wanted to do a little bonus episode to answer some of the questions that I have been getting on social media.
1:06.8	So the theme for this podcast, and we'll keep it short and sweet, is to look at the common
1:12.0	mind traps associated with anxiety. So if you go to CBT, which I do highly recommend, which
1:18.9	is cognitive behavioral therapy, and we covered it a lot in the second episode with Dr. Claire
1:24.4	Kamammetu, and it was a major game changer for me in managing my anxiety
1:29.1	and obviously in owning it, this is something that you will explore. So these common mind
1:34.0	traps and in psychology circles, they're going to use the term probably cognitive distortions,
1:39.4	which is a bit of a mouthful. But basically, they're just things that we do we all do we're all probably guilty of
1:46.2	from time to time and they give rise to anxiety so it's it's not this episode is not so much about
1:52.8	you know what's going on your life or physical stuff it's about the thought processes in your
1:58.5	head and obviously with CBT it looks at the thoughts
2:01.7	feelings and behaviors and how they all are working for you and how they interlink so yes this is a
2:08.2	really really good place to start with CBT and if you're considering going and you're not sure
2:13.2	this might give you a little taster so you may recognize a lot of this in yourself. I hope you do
2:18.9	because it means I'm not on my own. And the first one is catastrophizing. As the name suggests,
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