EP 281: Eryn Phelps — Healing Anxiety & Trauma, Navigating Time Scarcity, & Getting Clear on What You Want

Eryn Phelps is a licensed trauma counselor who specializes in helping outdoor athletes with anxiety, OCD, and PTSD. We talked about how EMDR helped cancer survivor and podcast guest Sol Wertkin, how to navigate time scarcity and get clear on what you want, overwhelm and panic attacks, grief and shame, labels and identity, and much more.

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Show Notes:  

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(00:00:00) – Intro

(00:01:26) – Partners

(00:05:56) – Sol Wertkin

(00:12:54) – EMDR

(00:27:19) – Sol continued

(00:34:00) – Pity, empathy, & compassion

(00:39:15) – Perception & victim mindset

(00:54:41) – Preventing negative beliefs from taking root

(01:00:08) – Mistakes, guilt, & shame

(01:05:21) – Trauma from injury

(01:10:21) – Grief

(01:15:23) – Accepting risk

(01:25:23) – Relationships

(01:31:27) – Time scarcity & OCD

(01:44:17) – Labels & identity

(01:48:58) – Anxiety

(01:51:53) – Overwhelm

(01:58:39) – Panic attacks

(02:04:06) – Curing anxiety, PTSD, & OCD

(02:09:28) – Getting clear on what you want

(02:24:02) – How Eryn makes decisions

(02:26:40) – A grass kinda day

(02:29:00) – Where to find Eryn

(02:32:11) – Complacency & communication

(02:36:44) – Dopamine