Anxiety Relapse Prevention - Morning Routine (Podcast Episode 349)

One of the more common mistakes people make in anxiety disorder recovery is treating it as something completely separate from the rest of their lives. You do the therapy work in one box, and everything else goes in another. That tends to backfire. In this video I introduce the concept of relapse prevention and walk through a four-pillar daily routine framework designed to keep you connected to the strategies that actually helped you make progress. This applies whether you're recovering from panic disorder, OCD, health anxiety, GAD, agoraphobia, or any other anxiety disorder. The four pillars are Sit, Move, Express, and Explore. Each one draws on evidence-based approaches and none of them require an hour of your morning or a perfect setup. The point is consistency, not performance. I also talk about the feeling-good trap: why progress is exactly when most people quietly abandon the habits that got them there. Old pathways don't get deleted. They just get unused for a while. So it's worth building habits that make it harder to fall back into them when things get hard again. And I have a word for the internet, which has a way of ruining useful things with aesthetics, comparison, and influencer nonsense. Timestamps 00:00 Intro: the mistake of treating recovery as a separate box 01:48 What relapse prevention actually is and why a morning routine 07:45 The feeling-good trap 10:14 Pillar 1: Sit (attention and mindfulness practice) 14:43 Pillar 2: Move (physical movement) 17:36 Pillar 3: Express (emotional expression and journaling) 21:03 Pillar 4: Explore (feed your spirit or soul) 26:11 A word for the internet: don't let it ruin this For full show notes on this episode: https://theanxioustruth.com/349 Want to talk about this episode with me? I'm hanging out in the Disordered Community Space: https://disordered.fm/community -- 🎓 ANXIETY COURSES AND WORKSHOPS https://learn.theanxioustruth.com 📚 MY BOOKS: https://theanxioustruth.com/books 🔗 ALL MY SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER LINKS: https://theanxioustruth.com/links 💜 SUPPORT MY WORK - BOOKS, WORKSHOPS, COURSES, AND MERCHANDISE: https://theanxioustruth.com/support ℹ️ WHO AM I? https://theanxioustruth.com/about