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EP 103: How to Conquer Your Worries and Anxieties

EP 103: How to Conquer Your Worries and Anxieties

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 Get another FREE tool for conquering your worries here: https://www.themissiondrivenmom.com/worry-opt-in-for-socials Join Audrey as she discusses the worries and anxieties we all experience. She demonstrates unhealthy ways we try to cope with our worries that actually make us more anxious! She goes into the short and long term negative consequences to our lives and our health when we allow ourselves to engage in chronic worry. Then she outlines 3 PRINCIPLES you can apply right now in order to arrest your worries in the moment and engage in good solution-focused thinking instead of worrying. With inspiring stories she shares about herself and Catherine Marshall, you'll see these principles in action and know how to better utilize them in your own life. She even ends with another FREE tool you can grab by following the link above! "Save us from the sin of worrying, lest stomach ulcers be the badge of our lack of faith." Peter Marshall "I've been through some terrible things, a few of which actually happened." Mark Twain Transcript:  Welcome to the Mission-Driven Mom podcast. This podcast is for moms just like you, who want to learn how to glorify God through finding and embracing true principles, discovering and developing your greatest gifts, and using them to serve your family and community. Welcome back to the podcast. I am Audrey Reba, the author of The Mission-Driven Life, and the founder of the Mission-Driven Mom, and I'm super excited to join you today on this podcast where we get to talk about three steps you can take right now to stop worrying and being anxious, how you can move forward in your life with greater confidence and forward momentum. And not let those worries and all that mom guilt stop you. Like they have stopped me in my tracks so many times. If this podcast is helpful to you, if it's giving you good information that you feel blesses your life we would love it if you would pass it along and if you would give us a review. That helps others who come across our podcast to know that it's a value and that they ought to engage and see what they might be able to learn here. It. Now we know that we all worry, and I do have a gift I'm gonna give you at the end with another tool for how to stop worrying. There's a lot of them that you can learn and get acquainted with in the academy, but today we get to learn three important ones from Dale Carnegie's book, how To Stop Worrying and Start Living, which I love and I've had in my home library for 20 plus years. These three steps are going to help you know what you can do right now today to turn those worries around. But I wanna start with giving you some context in a bigger picture about what worry is and what worry is doing to you. Mark Twain said something, I read it years ago and I've never forgotten it. I think it's funny, but also so true. He said. I've been through a lot of terrible things, a few of which actually happened. So that's kind of how life is for us. We worry, and one of the things that we know about, the more that we worry, the more it turns into anxiety and the more we focus on it, the worse it becomes. One of the aspects of worry that I found online was it is a. A lack of knowledge of and acceptance of reality, which we will talk about a little bit more later, and I think it's really fascinating to understand that. When you focus on the past, what you don't like about the past, that instigates depression, and when you focus on what you might not like about the future, that instigates worry. So this is where all of this is coming from, is when we are outside of the realm of the actual facts and we're not focusing on all the information. Instead, we're focusing on things that we don't like. When we do that, when these feelings of worry or anxiety start, sometimes we're not even like consciously aware that this is happening. You know, our child says something that sparks a, oh, they're gonna do this now because they said that, or we have something slightly wrong with our body, and we start to think, oh, no. This is gonna turn into such and such. I know someone whose life is, they're persistently struggling and crippled with health concerns that never come to fruition. I know other people that worry. I worry about my kids. I. Like crazy and things that are gonna happen that don't usually happen. It's usually not as bad as I think it's gonna be. Every once in a while it has been. I have had circumstances where I followed these three steps that Dale Carnegie taught me, and it's actually bowed me, well, I'll tell you about one of those in just a minute, but I wanna start with Amy Morin. She's got a book that I love that we use in the academy and in it she talks about. How we try to keep everything under control. She says, trying to control everything usually starts out as a way to manage anxiety. If you know you have everything under control, what's there to worry about? And rather than focusing on managing your anxiety, you try...

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