Healing From Anxiety | Ep 296

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

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Healing from chronic or disordered anxiety. How do we do it? Do we do it at all? This week on The Anxious Truth we’re talking about healing from anxiety because this is a topic so many people want to hear more about!
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https://theanxioustruth.com/296
If you are going to scroll through any of mental health social media today, you WILL see content that includes the word “heal”. Is that bad? Well, not necessarily. I’m not here today to be the anxiety word police, but given that our use of language and ability to think symbolically is one of the things that gets us into anxiety trouble to begin with, its is worth looking at the words and terms we use from time to time.

Disclaimer. If you love the word heal because it strikes a chord or feels like it really applies in your situation, then I am here to support you on that. Keep using it. Heal all day long. Heal like nobody’s business. Go for it. Everyone gets to use whatever language they want to use, and we all get to respect those choices.

But that being said, if you have been working like a dog to heal from anxiety and can’t seem to get anywhere with any kind of consistency, then maybe we need to take a look at that healing target. The words we use create the rules we feel we must follow. Our words create our internal algorithms and those algorithms do influence how we see ourselves, and the world, and they do influence how we behave. Since behavior change is really the tip of the spear when overcoming an anxiety disorder, we should probably look at this.

We all want to heal when injured or wounded. That’s not even a question. But when we are working on overcoming chronic or disordered anxiety, is healing what we’re trying to do? There are three primary issues with the word heal that I want to throw out there today for you to chew on.

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Chapters

1. Healing From Chronic Anxiety (00:00:00)

2. Reevaluating the Concept of Healing (00:08:14)