Anatomy of Anxiety with Dr. Ellen Vora
At Home with Linda & Drew Scott
Drew Scott
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🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Now is always a good time to talk about anxiety. Although we’re feeling okay presently, we know that the wonderful adventure of parenthood will also come with many challenges that will test our relationship with ourselves and one another.
Enter Dr. Ellen Vora.
Dr. Vora is a holistic psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health—considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root. Dr. Vora received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University, and she is board-certified in psychiatry and integrative holistic medicine.
More than 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety in any given year, a number that has only increased as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ve long thought of anxiety as a “neck up” problem—a problem of brain chemistry and psychology, but now in The ANATOMY OF ANXIETY: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response, acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora offers nothing less than a paradigm shift in the way we understand anxiety and mental health. Vora suggests that the symptoms of anxiety are frequently the result of physical imbalance—that is, anxiety is a whole-body condition, not simply a brain condition. In the same way that Bessel van der Kolk’s bestselling The Body Keeps Score changed how we understand trauma, The Anatomy of Anxiety will transform our understanding of anxiety.
The good news is that this body-based anxiety is treatable—simple solutions include: getting our circadian rhythm back on track; limiting caffeine, and becoming aware of blood sugar and its contribution to “hanxiety.”
Connect with Dr. Ellen Vora
IG: @EllenVoraMD
https://www.instagram.com/ellenvoramd/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiVEkdGfZmvqfBcPvF9EvJA/videos
Dr. Vora offers a ton of resources!!!
https://ellenvora.com/resources/
Get her book, The ANATOMY OF ANXIETY: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response
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| 0:00.0 | And then we have our true anxiety, which is not something we should be pathologizing. |
| 0:04.3 | And it's not something that we could gluten-free or decaf coffee our way out of. |
| 0:09.8 | It's our inner compass. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a true north, tapping us on the shoulder, nudging us to slow down and pay attention. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to at home. This is a place where we explore all the nooks and cr attention. Hello. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to At Home. |
| 0:26.4 | This is a place where we explore all the nooks and crannies of what makes us feel at home. |
| 0:28.5 | The good, the meh, and the messy. |
| 0:32.6 | We've been together over 10 years and we still have a lot to learn about each other. |
| 0:37.0 | I've been with myself for a long time and I still haven't figured myself out. |
| 0:38.1 | It's the process. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, there will be heated debates. Yeah, because Drew has very strong opinions about everything, like leaving the toilet lit up. Well, hey, we'll just bring in experts to help us |
| 0:48.1 | solve those. What about you though, leaving hair dolls in the shower? Ew. Those are gifts. |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah, that no one wants. |
| 0:55.8 | This is all a part of our life at home. |
| 1:06.7 | Well, hello, everybody. |
| 1:08.7 | Hello. |
| 1:10.0 | Do I sound tired yet? |
| 1:11.5 | Yes. |
| 1:12.6 | You sound tired. |
| 1:13.6 | I sound stuffy. |
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