The Surprising Approach to Finding Relief from Anxiety
Dear Gabby
Gabby Bernstein
4.8 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Instead of fighting your anxiety you can befriend it! In this episode Gabby does a deep dive into the powerful anxiety relief method from her New York Times bestselling book: Self Help.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:09.9 | Hey there, welcome to Dear Gabby. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm your host, Gabby Bernstein. |
| 0:14.1 | And if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. |
| 0:17.9 | It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. |
| 0:23.4 | Let's get started. Welcome back to Dear Gabby. Welcome back, Josh, to the show. |
| 0:30.3 | Thank you. Today we are talking about the surprising approach to offering relief from anxiety. |
| 0:36.4 | Yeah, I think that it's important that people understand |
| 0:39.0 | that like, oh, there's, you know, things that can be really practically applied. And I know that |
| 0:44.9 | you personally have had your own experience with extreme anxiety throughout your life. Oh, yeah. |
| 0:52.3 | I mean, I lived with an undiagnosed anxiety disorder for |
| 0:56.1 | most of my life. And I lived that way because I experienced trauma as a child. And in that |
| 1:03.1 | experience of the trauma, it was so extreme for me as a child that I turned to a lot of protection |
| 1:09.9 | mechanisms, like dissociation, controlling, hypervigilance. |
| 1:15.6 | And what I've come to understand is that one of those hypervigilant protection mechanisms |
| 1:19.3 | actually was anxiety. |
| 1:21.7 | And this is going to be a little confusing at first to unpack, but it's important to identify. |
| 1:26.7 | The anxiety that I lived with for so many years |
| 1:29.8 | was a driving force in maintaining a sense of control. And it was a feeling that was also |
| 1:37.2 | really intense, that it actually took my thoughts and my mind off of even deeper feelings. So when we have |
| 1:48.0 | extreme experiences from our childhood, big or small, big tea or small tea, they're too much for us |
| 1:54.1 | 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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