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Let's get started. Welcome back to Dear Gabby. Welcome back, Josh, to the show.

Thank you. Today we are talking about the surprising approach to offering relief from anxiety.

Yeah, I think that it's important that people understand

that like, oh, there's, you know, things that can be really practically applied. And I know that

you personally have had your own experience with extreme anxiety throughout your life. Oh, yeah.

I mean, I lived with an undiagnosed anxiety disorder for

most of my life. And I lived that way because I experienced trauma as a child. And in that

experience of the trauma, it was so extreme for me as a child that I turned to a lot of protection

mechanisms, like dissociation, controlling, hypervigilance.

And what I've come to understand is that one of those hypervigilant protection mechanisms

actually was anxiety.

And this is going to be a little confusing at first to unpack, but it's important to identify.

The anxiety that I lived with for so many years

was a driving force in maintaining a sense of control. And it was a feeling that was also

really intense, that it actually took my thoughts and my mind off of even deeper feelings. So when we have

extreme experiences from our childhood, big or small, big tea or small tea, they're too much for us

to handle and manage. So we push them down and say, I can't feel that terror or that feeling of

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