Anxious About Everything? One Simple Exercise to Rebuild Your FaithAnxious About Everything? One Simple Exercise to Rebuild Your Faith
Busy Living Sober with Host Elizabeth Chance
Elizabeth “Bizzy” Chance talks about anxiety, sobriety and faith, sharing a simple life review exercise to spot unexpected good in the past. She reflects on trusting God, daily spiritual habits and real-world connection as ways to move from fear towards faith.
16:22•22 Sept 2026
Faith or Fear? One Simple Practice to Calm Anxiety in Sobriety
Episode Overview
- Writing down unexpected good events from past years can highlight where life turned out better than expected and build trust in a higher power.
- Faith and fear do not sit together; shifting focus from fear to faith can ease anxiety in sobriety.
- Simple daily habits like reading a psalm and joining short prayer sessions can create a sense of hope and stability.
- Real-life connection through friends, meetings, and shared activities such as mahjong helps break isolation and reduce anxious thinking.
- Accepting powerlessness over people, events and the future can make space for faith, rather than constant worry and control.
“Faith and fear cannot live in the same moment, you guys.”
How do people cope with the challenges of staying sober and anxious at the same time? This episode of Busy Living Sober with Elizabeth “Bizzy” Chance goes straight to that tension between fear and faith, especially for anyone in recovery who feels on edge about pretty much everything.
Speaking from 20 years of sobriety and regular 12‑step meetings, Elizabeth shares a simple, practical exercise she picked up from someone in a meeting: look back over your life and write down the good things that happened that you never saw coming. Even if you only go back five years, you’ll probably surprise yourself. For her, this kind of inventory shows “where you had no power over it” and helps her see where God has been at work.
A big theme here is that “faith and fear cannot live in the same moment.” Elizabeth links her own anxiety to times she’s trying to control everything instead of trusting something bigger than herself. She talks about reading a psalm every morning, joining a 21‑day prayer group, and how those habits ground her when news about addiction, AI scams, or family tragedies feels too heavy.
She also keeps things very down‑to‑earth: phoning a friend, playing mahjong, meeting people for coffee, and getting out of the house are all framed as simple ways to stop spiralling alone. She repeats that life is full of bumps, pivots and loss, but insists that believing in God and in heaven is “a game changer” for living with less fear.
If you’re sober, sober‑curious, or just anxious and exhausted from trying to control everything, this quiet, faith‑centred conversation might give you one gentle exercise, a few honest stories, and a reminder that you don’t have to do life on your own. What small step could you take today towards faith instead of fear?
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