449: How to Make Anxiety Your Superpower | Dr. Wendy Suzuki
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drwendysuzuki449
Dr. Wendy Suzuki (IG: @wendy.suzuki) is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University and a celebrated international authority on neuroplasticity.
She was recently named one of the top ten women changing the way we see the world by Good Housekeeping and regularly serves as a sought-after expert for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Shape, and Health.
Wendy is the author of Good Anxiety and Healthy Brain, Happy Life.
If you struggle with anxiety, Wendy will show you how to turn it into a superpower, working for you instead of against you.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is good anxiety?
- Understanding clinical anxiety vs. everyday anxiety
- Why anxiety levels are increasing as a whole
- Wendy’s personal struggle with anxiety
- The gifts and superpowers that come from anxiety
- Appreciating the moments
- Wendy’s morning tea meditation ritual
- How to use social media in a positive way
- The effects of exercise on the brain
- Following a basic Meditteranean diet
- The most powerful tool is human connection
- Finding time for more balance in life
- Wendy’s wake up call to get back into shape
- Social isolation and anxiety
- 3 easy steps to harness your anxiety
- The what-if list
- The power of mindful conversation
- Enjoying moments of micro-flow
- Wendy’s favourite green smoothie
- Empathy is a superpower
- Practicing compassion gives you a hit of dopamine
- The best way to learn, is to teach
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | Give number one, that is the easiest |
| 0:05.0 | to understand and implement is to use something |
| 0:08.6 | that comes with all forms of anxiety, |
| 0:11.1 | which is that what if list? |
| 0:13.1 | What if I don't get tenure? |
| 0:14.7 | What if that faculty member doesn't support me? |
| 0:17.4 | What if that paper doesn't get accepted |
| 0:19.8 | and fill in your own what ifs? |
| 0:22.4 | We all have them. |
| 0:23.6 | And for me, it hits me right before I'm trying |
| 0:26.7 | to go to sleep and it's gonna feel so good to sleep. |
| 0:29.2 | And then suddenly, you know, I have all these what ifs. |
| 0:32.6 | So, again, going back to the theme |
| 0:36.7 | that that anxiety and that worry |
| 0:38.9 | is telling you something useful |
| 0:41.1 | about yourself, about your situation. |
| 0:43.7 | The gift is to turn that what if list |
| 0:47.3 | into a to do list. |
| 0:49.2 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast, episode 449. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm Jesse Chapis and I'm here to take your help |
| 1:00.9 | to the next level. |
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