If you're anxious, you fritter away the energy that you could have being alert, prepared,

engaging with your life, and creatively trying to figure out what to do.

Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the

thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,

and yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,

self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

We see what we don't have instead of what we do.

We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.

But it's not just about thinking.

Our actions matter.

It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep

themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf.

Fear is instinctual. It's like a cobra in a box of kittens. It grabs our attention and it won't

let go. But anxiety, that's something else.

It's the ghost of fear haunting us long after the danger is passed or before it even occurs.

In today's conversation with Martha Beck, we explore why anxiety can't simply be silenced.

It has to be replaced. Replaced with creativity, curiosity,

and a deep kindness towards ourselves. And when we do that, something important begins to happen.

Life starts to feel like something we can actually live rather than just survive.

I'll take any opportunity to talk with Martha. I think she's one of

the most gifted and thoughtful teachers we have today. I'm Eric Zimmer, and this is the one you feed.

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