EP 248 - Anxiety Recovery: Scary And Difficult Does Not Mean Ineffective

Scary And Difficult Do Not Mean Ineffective

Recovery by way of facing fear is scary and difficult. When people choose to recover by learning how to accept, tolerate, surrender to and move through anxiety panic and fear, sometimes they will declare that it doesn't work for them. They'll say that because they are afraid and they are challenged. They accidentally equate being afraid with recovery not working. They'll decide that being challenged means that they're not getting better or can't get better this way. These are logical errors.

Today lets talk about how recovering in this manner means you WILL be scared and you WILL be challenged, but that neither of those facts means that this doesn't work. Let's talk about accidentally selling yourself short and abandoning hope simply because you are afraid or encountering difficulties.

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https://theanxioustruth.com/248

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