Owning It Mini Episode: What CBT is and why it helps with anxiety

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

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

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

CBT is something that's naturally woven into each and every podcast, you probably use CBT tools yourself without realising it, so I wanted to give this hero therapy some time to shine and discuss what it is, how it works, why it worked for me and how incredibly helpful it is when you're on the road to owning your anxiety. I hope you find this helpful. See mindtools.org psychologytools.com and more for additional CBT resources

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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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0:33.2	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to another bonus episode of owning it to the anxiety podcast. This time again, it's just me. I wanted to take a little time out from all of my
0:38.8	chats with different people and take a moment to really go back to one of the central tenets
0:45.7	and aspects of my version of owning it, which is CBT. So cognitive behavioral therapy,
0:52.6	which is what it stands for, is something that I found
0:56.3	invaluable when I was trying to put back to pieces of my life when anxiety had really taken over.
1:03.0	And it's something that comes up again and again. And I guess I kind of skim past it because
1:06.8	I'm so used to it and it's just such a part of my daily life without even really being
1:11.0	aware of it. But I thought it was important to sort of slow down and really hone in on exactly
1:16.0	what that is and what that involves and how it differs from other different therapies or modalities
1:21.9	of therapy. So when I started out trying to put myself back together again, as I say, I was doing a lot of, I guess, what you call regular talking therapy.
1:30.8	So traditional therapy where you're sitting across from a therapist and you're just unloading onto them and dumping and, well, not dumping in the crude sense, but letting all of your emotion out.
1:41.4	And really what that's about is trying to put your finger on why you're upset
1:47.5	or why you're anxious or why, or even identify that you're anxious in the first place. So I guess
1:52.8	that is such a crucial step for a lot of people if they're, you know, really struggling and they just
1:57.1	don't know what's happening, why it's happening, or even whether it's anxiety or not.
2:01.9	I found that really helpful for a period of time.
2:04.9	But then after a while, I kind of just observed that I would come out of my therapy sessions,
2:09.7	and this is no disrespect to therapists who don't use CBT,
2:12.9	but I would come out of them feeling way worse.
2:15.4	I mean, I was just so upset and so exhausted from having
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