Coronavirus Anxiety and Your Ancient Brain

Therapy in a Nutshell

Therapy in a Nutshell -Emma McAdam

Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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News anxiety is pretty intense right now, but there are some things you can do about it. Learn to take control of your news habits, solve physical problems, and take reasonable precautions. All of this can help ease news anxiety. Looking for affordable online counseling? My sponsor, BetterHelp, connects you to a licensed professional for $65/week. Try it now for 10% off: https://betterhelp.com/therapyinanutshell Learn more in one of my in-depth mental health courses: https://courses.therapyinanutshell.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=07212020 Support my mission on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/therapyinanutshell Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.therapyinanutshell.com?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=podcast Check out my favorite self-help books: https://kit.co/TherapyinaNutshell/best-self-help-books Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC, and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health. In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction. And deeper than all of that, the Gospel of Jesus Christ orients my personal worldview and sense of security, peace, hope, and love https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist/believe If you are in crisis, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or your local emergency services. Copyright Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC Music licensed from www.Bensound.com or Artlist.io Images from Freepik.com (premium license), Pixabay, or Wikimedia commons

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to therapy in a nutshell. I'm Emma McAdam, a licensed marriage and family
0:17.3	therapist, and this is the podcast where I condense mental health skills
0:21.9	into bite-sized nuggets of help. If you're ready to learn more in-depth mental health skills,
0:32.7	check out my online courses on anxiety, coping skills, and how to change your brain. Ten alternatives to
0:39.1	medication to improve mental health. The link is in the description. You can use the code
0:43.8	nutshell for 25% off. Hi everyone, Emma McAdam here. I'm a licensed therapist and today we're
0:53.5	going to talk about what to do when the news is anxiety provoking.
0:57.0	So I'm sure there are a lot of people out there talking about coping skills, but if you know me, then you know that in this video,
1:03.0	I'm going to talk about how your brain responds to threats and how you can be more intentional about taking back your sense of calm. So some of you may have heard that there's this thing out there called the coronavirus,
1:13.6	and it's kind of a big deal.
1:15.6	People have been talking about it for a few months,
1:18.6	but just this week, it started to get real for most of us in the United States.
1:22.6	We've got things like school closures and travel bans
1:25.6	and some really big drops in the stock market,
1:29.0	not to mention the worry of actually getting sick.
1:32.3	So this is really affecting all of us.
1:35.0	And I think it's really unprecedented.
1:37.5	For example, the church I belong to, it's canceling services worldwide.
1:41.4	And this has never happened before.
1:46.6	So with all of this going on, I'm certainly feeling a bit of anxiety and concern and I'll assume that most people out
1:52.0	there are, especially if you happen to run out of toilet paper this week and you
1:57.1	can't find any at the store. I think a lot of us in the US here are wishing we had a bidet right now.
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