151 - How to Harness the Power of Anxiety With Neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education

5 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University. She invests much of her time studying brain plasticity–how the brain is able to grow and adapt over the lifespan. She is known for her extensive work studying areas of the brain that are critical to our ability to develop and retain long-term memories. But she’s also conducted a lot of research on anxiety and how we can use it as a way to empower ourselves. Some of the things she talks about today are the exact exercises that can reduce anxiety, how to turn anxiety into a superpower, and the things that are likely to make your anxiety worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast. We've interviewed over 100 authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and others to help you learn strategies to care for your mental health.
0:22.9	This episode is hosted by psychotherapist and bestselling author Amy Morin. Now let's get into the episode.
0:50.3	Okay. Do you experience a lot of anxiety? Does your anxiety cause you to avoid certain things? Do you struggle to know what to do when your anxiety spikes? If you answered yes to any of those questions,
0:56.0	today's show is for you. I'm talking to Dr. Wendy Suzuki, a neuroscientist and professor of
1:02.1	neuroscience and psychology at New York University. One of her areas of research interest is brain
1:08.1	plasticity. Through her research, she's uncovered a lot of information
1:11.9	about anxiety and how to manage it. Her first book was called Healthy Brain Happy Life, and it focused on
1:18.4	how exercise can improve our brains. Today, we're talking about her new book, Good Anxiety.
1:24.9	Some of the things we talk about are why we feel anxiety, the exact steps you can
1:29.4	take to manage those anxious feelings, and the things you might want to avoid because they're
1:34.2	likely to make your anxiety worse. Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode for
1:39.1	the therapist take. It's the part of the show where I'll break down Dr. Suzuki strategies
1:44.0	and talk about how you can apply them to your own life.
1:47.2	So here's Dr. Wendy Suzuki on how to harness the power of anxiety so you can grow mentally stronger.
1:53.5	Dr. Wendy Suzuki, welcome to the Very Well Mind podcast.
1:57.0	Thank you so much, Amy. It's such a pleasure to be here.
1:59.8	I'm thrilled that you wrote this book,
2:01.6	Good Anxiety. There's so many misconceptions about anxiety. So maybe we can start there. Can you
2:06.9	explain about why anxiety is so misunderstood and what we tend to misunderstand about it? Yeah. So the
2:14.2	subtitle of my book is harnessing the power of the most misunderstood emotion. And I think it's
2:20.4	misunderstood because our collective anxiety levels are just so high. The knee-jerk response is,
2:28.6	I just want to get rid of it. I don't want it anymore. It just get it out of my life. And that is
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