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The Mark Driscoll Podcast

The Anxiety Assesment

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Pastor Mark guides us through five questions we can ask ourselves to assess our anxiety so that we can better understand its roots, find peace in our daily lives, and ultimately strengthen our faith in the midst of uncertainty.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'll give you a little checklist as we head what,

0:05.0

toward what might be a conclusion.

0:07.0

Here's the anxiety assessment.

0:08.0

Here would be my question for you.

0:10.0

What triggers my anxiety and am I aware of it?

0:13.0

If not, here'd be a little assignment for you that I do for myself.

0:17.0

When I start feeling, here's how, let me say this too.

0:20.0

So how do you know that you got

0:21.8

anxiety? Spinning mind, racing heart, churning gut. Your body will tell you. How many of you,

0:32.4

it's spinning mind. Once you have fear and anxiety, you can't shut your mind off. You're just

0:36.0

thinking, middle of the night you wake up.

0:37.9

You're like, I got all these things to do

0:39.0

and I gotta go return my email.

0:40.3

And your wife's like, where are you going?

0:41.7

You're like, to do excel at 2.37 in the morning.

0:45.6

She's like, would you like to make love?

0:47.0

No, you're like, okay, 911, spinning mind? Like, you can't stop thinking about stuff. How many of you?

0:55.1

It's racing heart. You're like, ooh, my blood pressure's up. I can feel my, you know, I can feel it

1:00.7

in my chest. How many of you, it's churning out? You're like, I have a stomach egg. I don't feel good.

1:05.1

I don't feel right. My gut health is off. Okay. When your body's giving you signs about your anxiety,

1:14.3

what I would tell you is keep a journal and just write it down,

1:17.6

like, okay, what's going on?

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