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Dr Steven Phillipson: Brain Voice vs Gatekeeper Voice (#275)

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The Importance of Acceptance in Anxiety

When i have a panic attack the first thing that i always notice is how profoundly um powerful and authentic these signals are. After age 40 my brain said oh well now that you can't go crazy anymore after age 40 it flipped over and said now you're going to die of a heart attack. Steve Phillips has had only about 33 of them in his entire life not that i'm counting. He says he doesn't swim at all but would be like a three or a four out of ten with an anxiety rating of nine if there were holes in shark nets around him.

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