32: Overwhelming Anxiety & Overcoming It With Jonathan Horowitz

The Addicted Mind Podcast

Duane Osterlind, LMFT

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Mental Health

4.8 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Our guest on this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast is Jonathan Horowitz, founder and director of the San Francisco Stress and Anxiety Center. Jonathan is a clinical psychologist who studied anxiety research in graduate school before transitioning to being a clinician and opening the Stress and Anxiety Center.

It is a misconception that anxiety is always a bad thing; in fact, our minds were built to experience healthy anxiety when our bodies sense that they need to be alert to their surroundings. Anxiety starts to become a problem when we cross the line from heeding the warnings of our anxiety and benefiting from it to worrying about our anxiety and taking steps to try to get rid of it. A significant number of Johnathan’s clients are high-functioning, high-achieving individuals who may be having a difficult time coping with the pressures of their careers. These individuals might develop behaviors like procrastination, avoidance, or even developing an addiction of some kind in order to numb the anxiety that they are feeling. Anxiety can also be the result of giving up an addiction because the individual does not know what to do in place of their previous addiction.

Jonathan’s advice to those dealing with problematic anxiety is to (1) connect your change in behavior to something that is powerfully meaningful to you, and (2) establish goals and values for your life that involve emotional and cognitive steps or milestones. The goals can be achieved through mindfulness meditation training, breath work, cognitive restructuring, or other practices as directed by a clinician. Above all, it is crucial to know that anxiety, whether it is manifested in panic attacks, phobias, or social anxiety, is treatable, so seek the help you need.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Addicted Mind podcast. My name is Dwayne
0:10.7	Austerlund and I'm your host. And I'm also the co-founder of Novice Mindful Life Institute,
0:18.0	a psychotherapy center in Long Beach, California.
0:26.4	We specialize in helping people who are struggling with sex addiction and porn addiction.
0:30.1	We also help people who are struggling with anxiety and depression.
0:35.9	If you're looking for help and you're in the Los Angeles or Orange County area, look us up. You can find more information at theadictedmind.com forward slash help.
0:42.0	Or you can call us at 562-431-510.
0:48.2	So we have a great episode today.
0:50.9	Today I'm going to interview Jonathan Horowitz,
0:53.8	and he is the founder and director of the San Francisco
0:57.3	Stress and Anxiety Center. Now, in working with addiction, I have found that most people,
1:03.7	once they resolve the addictive behaviors or the drug use or alcohol use, they're left with some underlying issues. And one of
1:13.5	those issues can be anxiety. And if the anxiety is left untreated, I think that increases the likelihood
1:22.0	of relapse. So once again, none of us like anxiety. In some ways, we need anxiety.
1:29.7	But in other ways, when it's debilitating, it can really hamper our life and really be a burden for us.
1:37.2	So Jonathan is going to talk about that.
1:38.9	He's going to talk about how he conceptualizes anxiety, how he treats anxiety,
1:46.2	and he's really going to share his wisdom in working with this population and how he helps people. So I think it's a great episode.
1:52.2	I hope you guys enjoy it. So let's go ahead and get it started.
2:04.0	All right, everybody, welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast.
2:05.5	This is episode 32.
2:08.8	And my guest today is Jonathan Horowitz. And he is the founder and director of the San Francisco Stress and Anxiety Center.
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