Michael Hyatt
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169 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2022
last heard Feb 2025
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And I would just say to the listeners here, if you have racing thoughts at night, if you struggle with sleep, if you feel a sense of impending doom, but you can't really put your finger on it why it's happening, you probably got some anxiety. And the good thing is there are so many wonderful tools now. And I got real help that changed everything. But it was a process.
But it wasn't just from that diagnosis. That surfaced it. But I think I've really struggled with this my entire life.
What really helped me was, obviously I'm not recommending this, but it's worth exploring if you have any of those symptoms, is I went to a somatic therapist. Somatic just comes from the Greek word for body. And it's embodied therapy. So it's a lot of things like EMDR therapy or tapping, a lot of those kinds of things. And they work remarkably well. And they work, at least for me, pretty quickly.
When I went in, I took a self-assessment on my anxiety level. And I think the test was, it goes up to 21 and I was at 19.
So really high. But 12 weeks later, I was at a three because of some of these somatic therapies. And to be honest, some medication that helped too.
Well, I do think it takes some humility. And humility usually comes with failure. And I've experienced enough of it in my life that I'm open to new ideas. And I figure somebody somewhere has solved this problem. And if I just begin to search, I can find the answers to this. And I also, and I try to do this with my private coaching clients, is try to normalize things for them.
Because when you think you're the exception, then it makes you not want to get help. And so I think to normalize it, and one of the things I say to my clients when they share with me about their anxiety, and I usually go first. I'll share about mine. They're like, oh my God, I'm going through that same thing. And I try to normalize it and say, well, you're not alone. This is very, very common.
And then I try to normalize therapy. Because I had a therapist tell me one time, and I've been in and out of therapy really for the last 20 years, and it's been enormously helpful, but I'll go back for different kinds of things. And so I had a therapist tell me, it's the healthy people that come for therapy.
It's the people that are obstinate that don't think they need help to stay away from it, and they don't get the help they need. And so why go through life? struggling with something that somebody's already figured out the solution to. And I really believe in coaching. And so anytime I do anything, I hire a coach. To this day, I rarely go fishing without a guide. Why?
I could do all the things myself. I know how to do it. I've had some of the best guides in the world that teach me, but I'm not on the water every day. I don't know all the conditions. I don't know all the fish are eating. And so a guide, a coach, accelerates progress. So does a therapist. So I don't want to be in the misery any longer than I have to be.
I want to get the help I need to accelerate, you know, my progress. And that's really what a coach does. It's a catalytic accelerator. Same thing for a therapist that helps you move faster. If you've got problems in your marriage, get a therapist. You deserve a great marriage and you can build one. None of us got training on that kind of stuff. Same thing with your health. Hire a trainer.
I've got a trainer that comes to my house three days a week, and it's really hard to tell him to go away when he shows up on my doorstep. So I work out and do serious strength training three days a week. My wife and I both do. But don't be afraid to ask for help. You can't know everything. You don't need to know everything.
Thank you for having me. It's been a lot of fun talking about this.
Thank you. You've been a delight to talk to.
That's the coolest thing ever.
Mm-hmm.
But that's a big difference.
Yep.
It's beautiful.
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