# How To Stop Avoiding Your Life: Why Avoidance Makes Anxiety Worse & Shrinks Your Life (And How to Overcome It) | The Quickie

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/teach-me-how-to-adult-272638/how-to-stop-avoiding-your-life-why-avoidance-makes-anxiety-worse-shrinks-your-life-and-how-to-overcome-it-the-quickie
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/teach-me-how-to-adult-272638/how-to-stop-avoiding-your-life-why-avoidance-makes-anxiety-worse-shrinks-your-life-and-how-to-overcome-it-the-quickie.md
Podcast: [Teach Me How To Adult](https://stenobird.com/podcast/teach-me-how-to-adult-272638)
Published: 2026-06-03T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.teachmehowtoadult.ca/
Audio file: https://rogers.simplecastaudio.com/157b9387-a9f0-4f4f-a170-190d2d3d7854/episodes/d99f86db-93f6-44b9-bdbf-81579cc67f9b/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=157b9387-a9f0-4f4f-a170-190d2d3d7854&awEpisodeId=d99f86db-93f6-44b9-bdbf-81579cc67f9b&feed=lFz5vSdJ
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/teach-me-how-to-adult-272638/episodes/how-to-stop-avoiding-your-life-why-avoidance-makes-anxiety-worse-shrinks-your-life-and-how-to-overcome-it-the-quickie
Duration seconds: 1035

## Resource

Ep. 382: How To Stop Avoiding Your Life: Why Avoidance Makes Anxiety Worse & Shrinks Your Life (And How to Overcome It) | The Quickie

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/teach-me-how-to-adult-272638/episodes/how-to-stop-avoiding-your-life-why-avoidance-makes-anxiety-worse-shrinks-your-life-and-how-to-overcome-it-the-quickie/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/teach-me-how-to-adult-272638/how-to-stop-avoiding-your-life-why-avoidance-makes-anxiety-worse-shrinks-your-life-and-how-to-overcome-it-the-quickie.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.