Health Anxiety: How to Care for Your Body Without Living in FearIf you live with health anxiety, you are in a real conundrum. You want to be healthy and be there for your spouse, your kids, and your family. At the same time, living in fear is a stressor on the body itself.
In this episode, Matt Codde, LCSW, walks through the paradox of health anxiety. The more you try to control your health through checking, analyzing, and ruminating, the more you can end up in the very state that gets in the way of healing.
He also shares a practical way to draw the line: get checked first, then stop working at it as a health problem and start working at it as a fear problem. Along the way he looks at the guilt that often sits underneath fear, and what he has seen happen in the body when that lower emotion is released.
🧭 What You’ll Learn in This Episode
✅Understand why health anxiety is a paradox, not a logic problem
✅Learn why chronic fear is a stressor on your body✅See why trying to control your health can work against it✅Learn when to get checked and when to switch lenses✅Understand why going back and forth between "health problem" and "anxiety problem" keeps you stuck✅See how guilt hides underneath fear✅Learn what Matt has observed when fear and guilt begin to release
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