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Sep 2023
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EP 274 - Anxiety Recovery and Self-Care

Drew Linsalata
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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 always what you want. Sometimes self-care means challenging yourself a bit to help break the avoidance cycle. Sometimes self-care means you choose to be uncomfortable now to feel better about yourself later.


Let's take a closer look at self-care in a way that might not all that obvious.


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