43: Anxiety & The Anxious Story We Tell Ourselves

The Addicted Mind Podcast

Duane Osterlind, LMFT

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Mental Health

4.8 • 621 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Lori Kandels, a therapist in the Bay area specializing in anxiety. Anxiety is often the result of trauma and can manifest as fear, stress, self-doubt, and persistent negative stories ruminating in the mind, and can sometimes lead to addictions as a way to escape. The repetition of these stress responses creates neural pathways in the brain that become a cycle that can be difficult to break and usually negatively impacts the individual’s metabolism, concentration, sleep patterns, and ability to relax.

The key to understanding and treating anxiety is realizing that anxiety is only about the past or the future. With discipline and intention, anxiety can be overcome with practices such as mindfulness, meditation, EMDR, and the Emotional Freedom Technique or tapping. By identifying the triggers and developing a practice that gets the person used to relieve the anxiety, there is absolutely a way out of this stress cycle.

Lori wants to encourage those struggling with anxiety that you have control over this, you are safe now, and you do not have to live like this. Seeking help can provide you with a hope you may not have felt in a long time.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My name's Dwayne Austerlund and I'm your host. I'm also the founder of Novis Mindful Life Institute, Family Counseling and Recovery Center in Long Beach, California. If you or someone you know is struggling with any of life's difficulties, please reach out
0:23.6	to us. You can find more information about us at theaddictedmind.com forward slash help.
0:30.1	So today is episode 43 and my guest is Lori Candles.
0:35.8	She is going to talk about anxiety and how you can help yourself through it
0:42.5	if you're struggling with it. Now, I can say personally that anxiety sucks and anybody who has
0:49.5	dealt with anxiety can tell you it's no fun when you have it. So Lori talks about how you can help yourself
0:58.5	deal with anxiety and I really love her insights and what she has to say about it, especially,
1:04.4	you know, directly working within the body to change how you feel. So I hope you guys find this episode helpful and useful. So let's begin.
1:21.3	Hello everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast and we have a wonderful guest today. Her name is Lori Candles, and she is
1:31.3	going to talk about something that I think a lot of people deal with when they're struggling
1:35.3	with addiction, and that's anxiety. A lot of times I think people who have anxiety turn to substances
1:43.4	or behaviors to just get out of anxiety because anxiety
1:47.5	is really uncomfortable. So Lori, I'm glad to have you on and address this issue. Do you want to
1:53.7	introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about you? Sure. Thanks for having me, Dwayne. I really
1:58.2	appreciate what you do. Oh, thank you. I am well up the coast from you in San Francisco, and I have a practice where I see adults and couples in my office in the mission, and also online.
2:09.2	And I am the on-site therapist at Salesforce downtown.
2:13.9	Oh, okay, great.
2:15.2	So tell me a little bit about, because we talked about a little bit about
2:19.0	anxiety and how that impacts people. So tell me a little bit what got you interested in
2:25.0	helping people specifically with anxiety. But you also talked about work stress as well. And those
2:31.3	kind of can go together as well. So tell me a little bit about that.
2:35.1	Yeah, absolutely. Anxiety is a really big umbrella word. And increasingly, I think people are
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