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

By Drew Linsalata

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Struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, or other anxiety problems? The Anxious Truth will educate you, empower you, encourage you, and inspire you to get your life back! Listen to the podcast, read the books, join the social media community, and get on the path to recovery.

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EP 279 - Finding the Right ...

11.22.2023

Struggling to find the right anxiety therapist? Are you curious about how a therapist becomes a therapist? Let's take a look through the maze of credentials - from Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) to Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Marriage ...

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

11.22.2023 EP 279 - Finding the Right Therapist: Insights for Anxiety Sufferers Struggling to find the right anxiety therapist? Are you curious about how a therapist becomes a therapist? Let's take a look through the maze of credentials - from Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) to Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Marriage ...
11.08.2023 EP 278 - Does My Anxiety Therapist Need To Know Dr. Clare Weekes? Do you need to find a therapist that knows and follows the "Claire Weekes method"? This week we unpack the impact of Dr. Claire Weekes, shedding light on her influential role in the therapy world, specifically in the realm of ...
10.25.2023 EP 277 - Anxiety Recovery and Neurodivergence Issues w/Dr. Terri Bacow Anxiety recovery can be a highly individual journey. This is especially true if you have ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, or otherwise identify as neurodivergent. While there are certainly general principles we rely on, every person will find recovery to present ...
10.11.2023 EP 276 - Anxiety and Recovery: A Holistic View Anxiety and the recovery process do not exist in a vacuum. You are an entire person, and all the parts of you come into this process. Holistic is not a word you hear me use often, but it is a ...
09.27.2023 EP 275 - The Triggered AND TRICKED Anxiety Cycle The anxiety cycle starts as a seemingly never ending loop where you get triggered, you fight through it, you calm down, then you worry and fret over the next time you might get triggered. It can become an exhausting merry-go-ground ...
09.20.2023 Podcast Schedule Update - September 2023 No new podcast episode this week, but we will be back next week with a new episode on September 27, 2023. Going forward, new episodes of The Anxious Truth will be produced every other week. I'm making this change based ...
09.13.2023 EP 274 - Anxiety Recovery and Self-Care Self-care in anxiety recovery. We hear about it all the time, but is self-care always essential oils and hot baths and candles and soothing? It certainly can by, but self-care is also giving yourself what you really need, which isn't ...
09.06.2023 EP 273 - Anxiety Recovery: Questions and Answers This week we answered some common - and not so common - questions about anxiety and recovery. Thanks to everyone on Instagram that submitted a question. I appreciate it! First I reviewed some basic principles you can fall back on ...
08.30.2023 EP 272 - Anxiety Recovery And Learning To Do .... Nothing?! This week my guest is anxiety and OCD specialist Joanna Hardis who stopped by the podcast to talk about the art of doing ... nothing. Wait ... what? Nothing? Yes. Nothing. Humans are conditioned to automatically spring into action to ...
08.23.2023 EP 271 - Anxiety Help: "Can You Talk More About ....?" If this is all new to you, asking for more information is normal, expected, and healthy! Everyone needs more information and explanation to start. But if you are not new to this and you've heard me and others talk about ...
08.16.2023 EP 270 - Anxiety Recovery: Do You Need To Be "Motivated" To Recover? Help! I can't get motivated to do my exposures and work on my recovery! This is a thing I hear often in this community, so this week let's address motivation and the myth surrounding it. Often we think that getting ...
08.09.2023 EP 269 - Anxiety Recovery: EMDR Facts and Myths EMDR. It's become an insanely popular therapy over the last few years. Originally developed as a trauma recovery tool, EMDR is often touted as being appropriate or effective in many more clinical circumstances. But ... is it? Is EMDR an ...
08.02.2023 Therapist-In-Training Update and This Week's Podcast Episode Just a quick update on reaching the field/clinical work phase of my masters degree and why there's no actual podcast episode this week. We'll be back with another episode of The Anxious Truth next week as usual, but in the ...
07.26.2023 EP 268 - Principles of Anxiety Recovery. I Followed Them. You Should Too. It's not really what I did in my recovery that matters. Its WHY I did it. This week we're talking about why its far more useful to focus on the principles I followed in recovery than to try to mimic ...
07.19.2023 EP 267 - Anxiety and the Social Media Doom Scroll Let's talk about the dreaded social media doom scroll and the negative impact it can have in your recovery. Learning to be a bit more mindful and intentional with your social media use can go a long way toward helping ...
07.12.2023 EP 266 - Anxiety Recovery Means Doing Hard Things On Bad Days When you decide to start facing your fear, doing exposures, meeting challenges, and breaking your avoidance cycle, that's awesome! You're being brave and choosing to do hard things because it's help you in the long run, so take the credit ...
07.05.2023 EP 265 - Anxiety Recovery Is An ACTIVE Process (Revisiting Episode 11) There is no automatic immune response that fixes an anxiety disorder while we retreat, rest, wait, and hope. This is an active process that requires that you do more than just hope and wait. This week we're trying a little ...
06.28.2023 EP 264 - Anxiety Recovery: When Your Helpers Need Help Recovery from an anxiety disorder can impact not only the recovering person, but the people close to them. Sometimes our helpers wind up needing help themselves! When that happens, we may want to be supportive of them, but anxious fear ...
06.21.2023 EP 263 - The Anxiety Spiral: How To Allow Anxiety Without Spiraling HOW CAN I ACCEPT OR ALLOW ANXIETY WITHOUT SPIRALING? This week on The Anxious Truth let's answer a common question about "spiraling". This is a term used every day in our community so lets dismantle it a bit and re-conceptualize ...
06.14.2023 EP 262 - End Stage Anxiety Recovery: What Does It Look and Feel Like? End Stage Anxiety Recovery - What Does It Look Like? What does end stage recovery from an anxiety disorder look and feel like? How do you know when you're recovered? Is there a moment when things change? Will you automatically ...
06.07.2023 EP 261 - Anxiety Success Stories: Cruz Does It Scared If you love anxiety success stories, you're gonna love Jon Brandon Cruz (aka "Cruz'). Cruz went from stuck in his apartment, riddled with panic and afraid to leave, to back at work on a world tour to promote the Black ...
05.31.2023 EP 260 - I Can't Stop Scanning For How I Feel! (The Scan/Fear Cycle in Anxiety) I CAN'T STOP SCANNING FOR HOW I FEEL!!!This is a common issue for anxious people that leads to frustrating and a fear/scanning/fear cycle that seems like it never ends. This week we're talking about that cycle and answering the question, ...
05.24.2023 EP 259 - Finding Value And Valuing Yourself In The Struggle VALUING YOURSELF MEANS MORE THAN JUST SOOTHING AND SMOOTHING... This week we're examining the idea that in recovery we must value ourselves in such a way that we go beyond the common sense of soothing and smoothing to allow ourselves ...
05.17.2023 EP 258 - How Do I Stay Recovered? This episode was recorded on a beach by myself in a spot where my cell/mobile phone gets no signal, where there were no people to save me if I needed to be saved, and where I was far from help. ...
05.10.2023 EP 257 - Distraction For Anxiety: Does It Work? Distraction For Anxiety: Does It Work? "When I panic, I have to scroll through Instagram to distract myself!" Distraction is one of the most popular "techniques" for getting away from high anxiety, panic, and any thoughts or sensations that people ...
05.03.2023 EP 256 - What If The Anxiety Comes Back? I can't stop thinking, "What if it comes back?" This is one of the most common issues I hear almost daily from people traveling along the path toward anxiety recovery. This week on the podcast we look at why we ...
04.26.2023 EP 255 - Anxiety Made Me Terrified To Come To This Place When I was struggling with anxiety, panic attacks and agoraphobia, I was terrified to go just 3 or 4 miles from my house the the business I owned. Anxiety made it really difficult for me to go there or stay ...
04.19.2023 EP 254 - Anxiety Recovery: When Addiction Is Part Of The Picture For many in our community, addiction coexists alongside an anxiety disorder. Maybe one precluded the other, or maybe they developed concurrently. Regardless, this can often add additional shame and a sense of hopelessness. This is a topic we'll talk more ...
04.12.2023 EP 253 - Introducing A New Anxiety Recovery Resource This week I want to introduce you to a new anxiety and mental health resource. Disordered: Anxiety Help with me and Joshua Fletcher (aka "AnxietyJosh").Josh popped in to chat about why we started Disordered, what we hope to achieve with ...
04.05.2023 EP 252 - Trauma and Anxiety Recovery: Conflicting Messages? Trauma And Anxiety. Are There Conflicting Messages In Recovery? Trauma and anxiety often co-exist. That's not news. For many in this community, the lingering effects of traumatic experiences are real, and they can impact the anxiety recovery process. Today I ...
03.29.2023 Favorite Episodes From The Anxious Truth Back Catalog No new podcast this week, but we'll be back next week with episode 252. I asked my Facebook group which of the old podcast episodes they like the most and these are a few that came up often in the ...
03.22.2023 EP 251 - Why Did I Have A Panic Attack? I NEED TO KNOW! (Recorded In A Spot I Used To Be Afraid To Go) WHY Did I Have A Panic Attack? I NEED To Know!"Why did I have a panic attack?" is a question asked many many times every day in the community surrounding this podcast. People early on in the anxiety journey labor ...
03.15.2023 EP 250 - Afraid During A Panic Attack, Or Afraid Of Panic Attacks? Afraid During A Panic Attack ... Or Afraid OF Panic Attacks?This is one of those recovery concepts what will make you tilt your head and wonder what I'm talking about. But there is a difference between being afraid during a ...
03.08.2023 EP 249 - Examining Body Dysmorphic Disorder w/Robyn Stern, LCSW Examining Body Dysmorphic DisorderBody Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a condition in which a person sees - and becomes excessively focused on - problems or "defects" in their appearance that nobody else sees. This can become overwhelming when the person with ...
03.01.2023 EP 248 - Anxiety Recovery: Scary And Difficult Does Not Mean Ineffective Scary And Difficult Do Not Mean IneffectiveRecovery 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 ...
02.22.2023 EP 247 - Anticipatory Anxiety Explained w/ Martin Seif and Sally Winston Anticipatory anxiety - the anxiety you feel when you have an event or challenge coming up that you know will make you anxious and therefore fear - is a common type of anxiety that many struggle with. This week on ...
02.15.2023 EP 246 - I Can't Find A Therapist. What Can I Do? W/Lauren Rosen and Kelley Franke of the Pure OCD Podcast The state of mental health care - at least in the west - is such that many in our community have a difficult time either locating a therapist that specializes in treating anxiety disorders, or accessing professional mental health help ...
02.08.2023 EP 245 - Is Anxiety A Monster That Attacks You And You Can't Control It? How do you see your anxiety? Is anxiety a monster? Is anxiety like a storm or an invading army that comes to get you? Are you powerless over it? Do you feel that you can't resist, stop or control it ...
02.01.2023 EP 244 - Examining "Conditional Okay-ness" in Anxiety Recovery: Okay Even If vs. Okay As Long As. Do you see yourself as being OK "as long as" specific conditions are met? Or are you learning that you can be OK "even if" those conditions are not met? This can be a critical concept in recovery that can ...
01.25.2023 EP 243 - Do I Have To Be A Positive Person To Get Better? (Positivity vs Competence) Do you have to be a positive person to get better? Do you have to choose positivity? Eliminate the negative energy? Vibrate correctly? Manifest positive things? Accept only positive vibes? Develop a positive mindset? Are these things required in anxiety ...
01.18.2023 EP 242 - Serving Multiple Masters In Recovery w/Kimberley Quinlan & Joshua Fletcher In recovery we are sometimes dealing with more than one issue beyond just your panic, agoraphobia, health anxiety, or OCD. Maybe there is another phobia or phobias involved. Maybe you are dealing with tendencies toward perfectionism, people pleasing, or trying ...
01.11.2023 EP 241 - Anxiety Recovery: Assurance vs Reassurance And Why It Matters When dealing with an anxiety disorder we often talk about why excessive reassurance seeking is counterproductive and can make things worse. But why is this? And is there any time where seeking assurance is OK? Let's answer these two questions, ...
01.04.2023 EP 240 - Does Anxiety Recovery Mean I Can Never Call A Doctor? Anxious people focused on health issues often spend lots of time being checked, tested and examined by doctors. In recovery, I'm often asked if calling a doctor if never allowed, or if calling a doctor is wrong or indicates a ...
12.28.2022 EP 239 - Same Anxiety Symptoms ... Different Reactions? The Same Anxiety Symptons, But Different Reactions? Two people can have the same anxiety symptoms but different reactions to those symptoms. There can be common thoughts, fear themes, and bodily reactions, yet wide variations on how those things are interpreted ...
12.21.2022 EP 238 - Three Main Anxiety Fears Explained For most people, the things they fear the most in relation to anxiety and panic fall into one of three common categories or themes. Let's look at these three themes: Death/ Physical Incapacitation Loss of control / Insanity Embarrassment / ...
12.14.2022 EP 237 - Most Common Anxiety Symptoms (And Why They Kinda Don't Matter) Everyone wants to talk about the most common anxiety symptoms. I get it. Your symptoms feel important. They're scary and you see them as dangerous. In many many cases with it comes to anxiety disorders, the symptoms of anxiety become ...
12.07.2022 EP 236 - I Can't Sleep And I'm Anxious About That! (w/Daniel Erichsen) This week sleep physician Daniel Erichsen stopped by to talk about insomnia and a cognitive behavioral approach to the problem. If you're struggling with your sleep ... and struggling because you're struggling ... this episode is for you. Spoiler alert: ...
11.30.2022 EP 235 - Has Anxiety Become Your Identity? (w/Joshua Fletcher) When in the thick of the struggle, it can be easy to fall into the trap that makes anxiety a major part of your personal identity. UK psychotherapist and anxiety specialist Josh Fletcher is back this week to talk about ...
11.23.2022 EP 234 - Can Anxiety Be Cured Or Just Managed? What Is Recovery? Can anxiety be cured? I know that if you look for an answer to this question you will find a very wide range of answers. This week on the podcast we'll look at why there's such a wide range of ...
11.16.2022 EP 233 - The Power Of Suggestion: Triggering An Anxious Mind Real events that you witness or stories you see on social media or in the news show us the power of suggestion at work when it comes to triggering anxiety. Today an old friend popped in to relay his experience ...

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