 I'm Drew Lincelotta, creator and host of the Anxious Truth podcast. I am Joanna Hardis. I am a therapist in Cleveland, Ohio specializing in OCD and anxiety disorders. We are here to talk about the idea of tolerating distress and discomfort, which is really a key aspect of the whole recovery process that a lot of people miss. We like to think of tolerating distress and discomfort as learning to run a marathon. If I asked you today, could you run a marathon? No, I could not. You couldn't or you couldn't yet? I couldn't yet. You probably have to learn a process to be able to run your marathon, right? Do you have any clue how to do that right now? No, but I guess I can practice it. So this is what we're trying to teach people, is that it's not that their goal, there's any problem with their goal, it's that they don't know how to scale the goal down and how to tolerate all the unpleasant and uncomfortable feelings that are going to come up as they try and meet their goal. So if you're worried that you have no ability to tolerate level 10 anxiety and fear, think of it as the marathon. Maybe you would say that you just can't do that, but we would tell you that you just can't do it yet. And we're going to tell you that if a marathon is a 10 out of 10 in terms of difficulty, we're going to teach you how to do all the things between a two and a 10. So you build your confidence and you change your perception about what's possible. So come join us as we host a two hour webinar once every month, usually in the middle of the month. We talk about the concept of distress tolerance, ways you can practice it, ways you can get better at it. It's fun, it's accessible, it's educational. We have a good time. We do have a good time. Link is right below. Check it out.