Dr. Wendy Suzuki: ...there's a flipside to our most difficult emotions

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Anxiety is the topic of this episode and if you find yourself feeling anxious as you go through your daily life, you’re not alone! Joining us once again is neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki, who is the author of the book, "GOOD ANXIETY: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion", now out in paperback. Her website is wendysuzuki.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. If you find yourself feeling anxious as you go through your daily life, you're not alone. Our guest on this episode, neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki says we live in an
0:23.5	age of anxiety. We're surrounded by too much information to filter and too much stimulation to relax.
0:30.0	But she says anxiety is not only essential for our survival, it's also a key component in living
0:35.7	our best lives. Dr. Suzuki has been a guest on Nobody
0:38.9	Toby before and we're very glad to welcome her back. She's the bestselling author of the book
0:43.7	Healthy Brain, Happy Life, as well as the book Good Anxiety, harnessing the power of the most
0:50.1	misunderstood emotion, which is now out in paperback. Dr. Suzuki, thank you so much for joining us.
0:55.9	Thank you so much, Jan. It's a pleasure to be back with you. What is anxiety? I want to start with
1:02.1	that, and I know we started with that before, but I think we need to kind of have a working
1:05.7	definition of anxiety to really talk about it. That is a perfect place to start. So anxiety in a simple definition
1:14.1	is that typically that feeling of fear or worry associated with a situation of uncertainty.
1:22.4	So it's not surprising that given the last two and a half years of our collective experience, anxiety levels have gone up.
1:31.3	I want to add two things to that definition. The next thing is anxiety is a normal human emotion. Everybody has this emotion of anxiety in their emotional toolbox.
1:47.2	We all do.
1:48.0	Don't believe anybody that says I can get rid of all your anxiety.
1:50.8	It doesn't work like that.
1:51.9	We all have anxiety.
1:53.8	And the third thing that I want to add is that in this book and in the way that I'm approaching anxiety, I am not a clinician.
2:03.2	I do not treat people with clinical, pathological levels of anxiety.
2:07.8	I'm a neuroscientist that has gathered together all the most powerful tools from psychology
2:14.0	and neuroscience to help us understand how to make the best out of our own anxiety.
2:22.3	I like to call this book a how to do a jiu-jitsu move on your own anxiety to make it work for you.
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