Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. This is Dr. Aviva Rame, your host.

And I have for you today, episode 106,

overcoming anxiety with self-care,

how to rewire to thrive. How we feel to rewire to thrive. How we feel shapes a tremendous amount of how we

experience life, what we believe is possible in terms of our happiness, our

success, our health, and even what people and experiences we attract to ourselves.

It took me a long time to discover that I have a lot of control over how I choose to feel and

that one thing I didn't like being plagued by was

happiness anxiety. This awareness started for me about 10 years ago. I was invited to

teach at a conference in fact to be the keynote speaker.

It was a big event, a decent payment offer, and a topic I love, women's health.

You'd think I'd be thrilled.

But my first reaction wasn't excitement, it was anxiety. Specifically, that

means I have to fly out west, which means an airplane, which means what happens to my kids if something

happens to me, and so on and so on, to the point that within

15 minutes I had so many worries that I was on the verge of cancelling before I'd officially

accepted. Now, this was not an unfamiliar reaction.

I'd experienced it many times before, when I got my first book contract, when I got accepted to Yale Medical School,

and honestly I felt it a little bit every time I was just plain really happy and secure.

In would creep that fear gremlin saying, watch out something terrible is going to happen. Now if you met me and looked at the big

chances I've taken in my life, applying to college at 14, leaving home to start college at 15,

birthing my four children at home, being a home birth

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