[Recover Strong] Two essential skills for MANAGING ANXIETY and future-oriented fear
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Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
(Disclaimer: This episode is a re-run. It was originally published on November 7th, 2022)
Anxiety has two demands. It wants to know exactly what’s going to happen AND it wants to feel comfortable. Anxiety wants certainty and comfort.
In this episode, we take a look at bigger picture ways of working with anxiety by practicing skills. With time and integration, these essential skills can help you reach new levels of mastery in managing your anxiety and future oriented fear.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Recover Strong, a podcast that will transform your recovery from an eating disorder |
| 0:06.7 | by helping you go from theory to practice to mastery. This is your special time to learn new skills, |
| 0:13.7 | tools, and get the inspiration you need to recover strong. Let's get started. |
| 0:18.6 | Good morning morning warriors. |
| 0:23.6 | Time to start your day. |
| 0:26.6 | Keep your head up marching on. |
| 0:29.6 | Don't understand in your way. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, my warrior friends. How are you all doing? |
| 0:39.3 | My name is Jessica Flint. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm the founder and CEO of Recovery Warriors, a multimedia resource hub for all things related to eating disorder recovery. |
| 0:48.3 | I personally recovered from an eating disorder and am here to inspire you to do the same. I believe recovery |
| 0:55.8 | is not only possible, but it's worth it. That is why recover strong exists to help you see and |
| 1:02.0 | connect to the potential that lies within you to find freedom from an eating disorder. |
| 1:17.2 | Today I want to cover two essential skills to work with when struggling with anxiety and fear. |
| 1:21.1 | And in preparing for this episode, I did a lot of research. |
| 1:25.7 | And I came across a researcher at Boston University named Dr. David Barlow. |
| 1:30.0 | And I love the way that he talked about anxiety in his research. And he said that anxiety is a more elaborate form of fear. And I think that's just an |
| 1:36.8 | interesting way of looking at it. Anxiety is a more elaborate form of fear. And he described, Dr. David |
| 1:43.6 | Barlow, he described fear as something that is focused. |
| 1:47.8 | Fear is focused. It's focused on a reaction to a specific observable danger. |
| 1:53.2 | And we always kind of think back to the caveman and the tiger. Fear, ah, ra, tiger, coming at you. |
| 1:58.9 | This is something that is specific and it's observable. There the tiger is |
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