 Welcome to the anxious morning every weekday morning will take a few minutes to go over important lessons that you can use in your anxiety recovery journey The anxious morning brings you support education inspiration encouragement and empowerment Read or listen quietly on your own time free of the endless noisy scroll of social media Use the information to help you along the path to recovery from panic disorder Agoraphobia and other anxiety problems for more visit us at the anxious morning calm I often talk and write about being mindful of your habits when it comes to talking about your anxiety There are some anxious people that default to silence. They withdraw isolate and never talk about how they feel My experience tells me that they are in the minority or at least at the nature of building an online community Based on anxiety disorders self-selects for people more likely to want to talk about all of this If you're reading this email, I'm guessing that you want to talk about how you feel You want to tell people how you feel you want to ask if anyone else feels that way You may want to ask me why you feel that way and what you can do about it You may find yourself talking about this most of the time This does seem logical since you're probably also thinking about this most of the time If you're thinking about it, you're gonna want to talk about it. It makes sense The problem here is that talking about how you feel all the time is not terribly productive When we're hyper focused on the sensations of anxiety and the thoughts that come with it Talking about them in an effort to solve them stop them or otherwise sooth them has the opposite effect We become fixated even more intently on them and that's not even the worst part The worst part is that when we talk about our anxiety constantly we make it the most important thing in the room all the time Recovery is about not making anxiety the most important thing even when it is screaming at you to pay attention to it We learn to detach from it and let it be Recovery is about learning that you can be capable and functional Even while anxious because anxiety does not have to be the center of the universe at all times This means we have to catch ourselves when we fall into the habit of speaking our fears out loud repeatedly or Talking continuously about how we feel. This is not easy. Part of recovery is learning to change our habit of anxious words Remaining silent when our fear tells us to speak so that we may be saved is so difficult But it is an important part of moving forward Tomorrow we'll talk about the differences between repeated speaking of fear and expressing yourself in a healthy way Hey, if you're enjoying the podcast and you'd like to get a copy of it delivered every morning into your email inbox Including a full-text transcription head on over to the anxious morning dot email and sign up for the newsletter And if you're listening on iTunes or Spotify or someplace where you can leave us a rating or review Take a moment and rate the podcast and maybe write a small review. It really helps us out Or just tell a friend about us. Thanks a lot