What Would Non-Anxious You Do? (Episode 025)
Disordered: Anxiety Help
Josh Fletcher and Drew Linsalata
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week Josh and Drew do a deep dive into this million dollar question:
"What would non-anxious you do?"
The concept of "non-anxious you" and connecting to the way you would live your life if you were not accommodating the fear of fear is powerful. Josh talks about this all the time, and for good reason! Today we take a look at why acting like non-anxious you might act (even when you're clearly anxious) is so helpful.
The guys also chat about how the idea of "non-anxious you" can lead you down the path that re-connects you with yourself, even when you feel like you're not even sure who you are and what you like any more.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of the anxiety advice out there is to cut things out of what you're, what you'd usually |
| 0:08.0 | do so you can minimize and neutralize symptoms. This is something that we don't kind of promote. |
| 0:15.5 | For all we know, this person misses her caffeinated coffee. And I'm going to roll the dice. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm going back to what i used to love i |
| 0:22.4 | love non-anxious you what would not anxious you do is a good principle to follow or a good guideline |
| 0:27.3 | i think when you're not sure what to do it's a good point of focus at the time where you feel |
| 0:32.9 | lost and stuck and you've suddenly changed your life and your behavior then the amygddala's going to remember that and go, oh, wow, well, that feeling must be dangerous. You must do everything to avoid it. And so the antithesis of that is, no, I'm going to do what non-anxious me would do. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to Disordered. This is episode 25 of the podcast entitled What Would Non-Anxious You Do? |
| 0:58.4 | I'm Drew Lin-Salada. I'm a graduate student in clinical mental health counseling, a therapist in training in the United States, State of New York, and an author in a podcast on the topic of anxiety disorders. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm Joshua Fletcher, a psychotherapist specializing in anxiety disorders based in the |
| 1:15.2 | Manchester in the UK, also previous sufferer, writer of books, and co-host of this wonderful |
| 1:22.0 | podcast. |
| 1:22.9 | Writer of books, singer of songs. |
| 1:24.5 | I've heard you sing. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah, it's when I want to |
| 1:28.0 | expose people to |
| 1:31.0 | the amygdala again. |
| 1:34.1 | It's an experience, trust me. |
| 1:36.4 | Anyway, so today we're going to talk about |
| 1:38.4 | what would non-anxious you do, which is something that |
| 1:40.6 | since we met, I've heard you say. It's definitely a |
| 1:43.2 | Josh phrase, and I dig it |
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