245: Managing Stress & Anxiety During COVID-19

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Access our new Love Under Quarantine series here: Love Under Quarantine You're not alone if the current crisis is causing you to feel stressed and anxious. Anxiety can manifest itself in many ways that prove detrimental to our own personal health, as well as our relationships. The sense of uncertainty, worrying about the future and the general demands of life are all forms of anxiety. Don’t let anxiety bog you down and negatively affect the relationship with yourself and your partner. In this episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How anxiety can manifest as reactivity to your partner and how to change this to responsiveness Why some anxiety can be good and how to best channel this energy Becoming aware of your anxiety and taking steps to manage it How to slow things down rather than approaching everything with a sense of urgency How anxiety lives in the body and the physiological responses we can create to cope with our anxiety And much more! Dr. Denise Fournier is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist and coach in Miami, FL. Through her practice, Evergreen Therapy, she works with individuals and couples using an approach that blends modern research and Eastern philosophy. In addition to her work with clients, Denise is also an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University and a regular contributor to the Psychology Today. Full show notes and episode links at: https://idopodcast.com/245 Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Sponsors Native creates safe, simple, effective products that people use in the bathroom everyday, including some amazing deodorant! For 20% off your first purchase, visit nativedeodorant.com and use promo code IDO20 during checkout! Feals is premium CBD delivered straight to your door. Become a member today by going to Feals.com/ido and get 50% off your first order. Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's going on, what's going on,
0:32.0	What's going on, guys? Hey, Love Tribe, thanks for listening today. We hope you are maintaining your sanity, your health, and hanging in there.
0:38.8	We are still hold up here in Costa Rica and we are definitely not complaining but the beaches are closed
0:47.0	and restaurants everything is closed.
0:50.0	Yeah, it's like a ghost town and we know a lot of people are really having some serious hard time so by no
0:58.5	means are we complaining about being in this warm place during these times, but we are definitely confined to the house
1:05.8	and dealing with everything as you guys are as well.
1:10.0	And that's why we wanted to re-release today's episode with Dr. Denise Fornier, and she is a
1:16.6	mindfulness-based psychotherapist and coach in Miami, Florida.
1:21.6	And today we talk about dealing with anxiety, whether it's personal or helping
1:27.1	your partner through it.
1:29.5	And like Chase mentioned, we did put this out a couple years ago, but there is so much valuable information that people can use in the relationship right now if you are feeling anxious or stressed out due to COVID-19 and all the effects of it and so we really
1:47.3	encourage you to re-listen to it even if you already have listened to it. I think my biggest takeaway from this episode that Denise
1:56.7	talks about is breathing and how important it is to just breathe.
2:04.0	We can all feel stressed out and overwhelmed,
2:06.5	but taking a couple of breaths can really make you feel grounded
2:11.0	and hopefully feel a little bit better.
2:14.0	And she gives us some exercises to do that and you can just replace work with COVID-19.
2:21.0	Because a lot of times we give stories about work and being stressed out with that or kids and yeah just insert this virus and you're going to have the same great tools and tactics to deal with this.
2:35.0	And we're thinking about you guys, hang in there, we're all going to get through this.
2:39.0	We appreciate you guys tuning in and listening and enjoy today's episode.
2:44.8	Today's show is brought to you by our online course, Spark My
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