Avoidance and Safety Behaviours (Monologue)

Host: Anna Christie, Psychotherapist and Emetophobia Specialist

Monologue by Anna Christie on Avoidance and Safety Behaviours. Anna lists a lot of possible behaviours, and encourages listeners to make their own list. If you can put your list in order from easiest to most difficult to give up, you can slowly work on doing just that, and your emetophobia will improve significantly. Anna goes into more detail about how this works.

Trigger Warnings: The phrase "get sick" "was sick" etc. are used and the term "throw up" once. No stories are told and nothing gory or disgusting is discussed.

Opening Quotation: "When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe." ~ Martha Beck

 Intro Music: YouTube Audio Library, "Far Away (Sting)" by MK2, Used with Permission.