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The Hidden Cause Behind Anxiety and Chronic Symptoms That Medicine Keeps Missing · Bye Bye Panic

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Millions of people are suffering from something that's real, explainable, and completely recoverable, but the medical community has no name for it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You may have done every test, seen every specialist, been told nothing is wrong, but your body tells a completely different story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've spent the last seven years helping people recover from panic, anxiety, and chronic symptoms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what I've found is that the root of all of this has one name, it's called nervous system sensitization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And once you understand what it is, every symptom, every sensation you're experiencing will finally make sense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, what is sensitization?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever experienced bizarre sensations or symptoms, gone to your doctors?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They've done every test and just been told everything's fine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they said nothing was wrong, it's just stress, it's just anxiety, or they handed you a diagnosis, but offered no real explanation and no real solution.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you might have thought, wait, how can nothing be wrong?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These sensations aren't normal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Something is happening to my body.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Something is happening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just not a medical issue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a nervous system calibration issue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sensitization is simple.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Your nervous system has a threshold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A point at which it decides something is dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever you experience prolonged stress or a single intends incident that hits that threshold, your nervous system becomes more sensitive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More reactive, more alert.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And at that point, it starts producing intense sensations and symptoms as if something is wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even when there is no trigger and there is no danger.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That might look like a racing heart out of nowhere, chest tightness for no reason, dizziness when you're just sitting still, a wave of panic in the middle of a completely normal day, brain fog that makes it hard to think, fatigue that sleep never fixes, digestive issues that come and go without an explanation,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and you have no idea why.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is sensitization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Your body isn't broken.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just stuck in a state of high alert, responding to a threat that is no longer there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So here's the question I get all the time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If sensitization is this common, if doctors are seeing these patients every single day, why am I learning this from a YouTube video and not from my doctor?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a fair question, and the answer isn't that the doctor is incompetent or dismissive, the answer is more simple than that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This leads me to point two, which is why medicine misses this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The medical system is looking for disease.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's looking for broken things, tumors, viruses, structural damage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It can measure that on a chart.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It needs something it can point to.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Something it can name, isolate, and treat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sensitization doesn't give it that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because sensitization is in their disease.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a state.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Your nervous system isn't broken.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's miscalibrated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything is functioning exactly as it should.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just at the wrong threshold, the volume knob is just turned on a little too high.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's the distinction.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Broken vs. miscalibration, it's the entire reason medicine keeps skipping this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're looking for malfunction, not miscalibration.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And no scan, no blood work, no test.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Inexistence is designed to measure calibration.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even though what you're going through is intense, sensitization is still too subtle for the medical community to acknowledge.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing in their test that can measure this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now here's the thing that makes things more complicated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Medicine does actually recognize pieces of this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Croning pain researchers talk about central sensitization, cardiologists see autonomic dysregulation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Gastroenterologist recognizes visceral hypersensitivity, trauma therapist work with hypervigilance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And there's another layer to this that almost nobody talks about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When medicine can't find the cause, it often lands on a diagnosis anyway.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: IBS, fibromyalgia, panic disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a cruel irony in all this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Being told you have a disorder actually deep in sensitization, because now your nervous system has a confirmation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You really begin thinking that there is something wrong with me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that belief becomes its own fuel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every specialty sees their own corner of this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody has connected the dots and said, these are different manifestations, or of the same issue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a building's viral alarm system that has been miscalibrated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every time someone makes toast, every alarm in the building goes off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So engineers come in, check the wiring, and it's fine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They check the alarms, works perfectly, they check the fire, there is none.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On paper everything seems normal, but the building is in chaos every morning, medicine keeps checking for fires, nobody is recalibrating the system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now I want you to understand that your frustration isn't only isolated to you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This leads me to my third point, the frustration in the system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Doctors aren't oblivious to what you're going through.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're equally as overwhelmed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ask any doctor and they'll tell you they've seen patients like this all the time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A neurologist once told me that one in three of his patients fit this description.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One in three and then he said his biggest job is helping them stop coming to his office.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that sentence says everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These doctors aren't dismissing you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their sole responsibility is to help someone with medical conditions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when someone is dealing with a sensitized nervous system, there isn't anything wrong.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the doctor has to make sure and protect his or her time for patients that actually have medical issues.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: so they do what they can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They refer you to a specialist, not always because they think the specialists will find something, but because they don't know what else to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then the specialist sends you somewhere else, and then the person sends you back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And now you cycle through appointments, prescriptions, and referrals, each one a small hope, each one a quiet disappointment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the whole time, nobody's actually getting closer to the root.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Therapists hit the same wall, because talk therapy has his limits here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can't think your way out of a sensitized nervous system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The problem isn't your thoughts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's in your threshold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So you bounce, doctor to therapist, specialist, and then back again, getting fragments of the truth from everyone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the whole truth from nobody, this isn't a failure of medicine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a gap in it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Medicine built an extraordinary machine for finding disease.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just never built one for identifying a sensitized state.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that gap is where you've been stuck.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now this leads me to the next point, which is, How do you actually overcome this?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, there are a few things that need to happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The first is education, which is what you're doing right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: understanding that these symptoms as intense and as as frightening as they feel are not dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And they're not indicators that something is medically wrong because you've already gone to your doctors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're an output of a miscalibrated nervous system doing exactly what it's designed to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When you truly understand that, the fear around your symptoms begin to lose their grip.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that matters because fear is the fuel that keeps sensitizational life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The second is understanding how your nervous system is actually creating these experiences.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The racing heart, the dizziness, the chest tightness, the brain fog, these aren't random.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There is a mechanism behind every single one of them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and when you understand the mechanism, the symptoms stop feeling like a mystery you need to solve and start feeling like something you can move through.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The third and this is where most people get it wrong is learning how to respond.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not cope with these sensations, not avoid, not manage, but actually learning to let this sensations be there without fighting them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: without fleeing from them, without layering a fear on top of them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That response, that new relationship with your symptoms is what begins to lower the threshold and help you de-sensitize your nervous system.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then there is dealing with setbacks where all of a sudden you have a bad day out of nowhere.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: because they will happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And how you respond to a setback is everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A flare is not a relapse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A bad day is not proof that you're getting worse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Learning to move through setbacks without restarting the fear cycle is one of the most important skills in recovery.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And finally, building the core confidence that you are not fragile.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that your body can handle this, that you do not need to protect yourself from your own sensations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That confidence you develop is what gets you out of the cycle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you want to go deeper in all this, the full recovery journey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I've put together a free masterclass, basically a course for the internet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an hour and a half.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It covers everything we've touched today and goes much deeper.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No coping strategies, no bandits, just a complete picture of what recovery looks like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can watch it over here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now the people who come out of this on the other side, and they do come out, they always say the same thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They don't say, I'm just glad the symptoms are gone, they say, I'm glad I went through this experience because it made me a better person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because here's what recovery actually looks like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not waking up and never feeling a sensation or having a bad day again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's waking up and not being afraid of how you feel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's having a bad day and not spiraling.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a living life fully, not because the symptoms disappeared, but because they no longer have power over you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And every single step you take to word your life instead of away from your symptoms moves you closer to it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: progress is real, a compounds, it starts small and almost invisible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then one day you realize you went through this entire day without even thinking about your symptoms or anxiety.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's when you know you were never broken, you just never had the right explanation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now you do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now the next step is to watch that master class, it's free, it's an hour and a half.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it talks about everything we talked about today and shows you exactly how to move through this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The link is right here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for watching.