Ep. 261 – Anxiety Series: Jenny Taitz

Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg

Be Here Now Network

Beherenow, Religion & Spirituality, Beherenownetwork, Buddhism, Meditation, Society & Culture, Sharonsalzberg, Metta, Salzberg, Compassion

4.6 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

For episode 261, Dr. Jenny Taitz returns to the Metta Hour for our Anxiety Series.

Jenny is a clinical psychologist and an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her fellowship in psychology at Yale University School of Medicine and achieved board certifications in cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. In addition to treating clients in her private therapy practice, LA CBT DBT, she is the author of How to Be Single and Happy and End Emotional Eating. Her new book, Stress Resets: How to Soothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes, is now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

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In this episode, Sharon and Jenny discuss:

Jenny’s approach to anxiety
Emotions are contagious
The superpower of emotional regulation
Cultivating an inner life
Three-point check-in
How to break-up with overthinking
Getting grounding
Cognitive diffusion
Naming your inner critic
Sitting with uncertainty
Building a hope kit
Box-breathing
Lovingkindness
Doing good deeds
Examining assumptions
Surfing emotional urges

Sharon closes with a hypothetical situation about anxiety which Jenny advises on. You can learn more about Jenny’s work and get a copy of her book, Stress Resets, on her website.

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0:00.0	To be enlightened is to be intimate with all things, Dogan Zenji.
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1:06.4	visit romdos.org forward slash today intimacy.
1:11.0	Emotion regulation is the ability to be able to feel like you have some ability to change your emotions. And so some people feel like
1:30.8	their emotions are almost on an on-off switch where either they're on or they're off. But emotions,
1:37.6	we can actually put them more on a dimmer system where we can dial them down and up. And it's helpful to know this because some people feel like their emotions are in the driver's seat
1:48.1	and they're like in the trunk and that's a really stressful way to live.
2:07.7	Hello and welcome to the Meta Hour podcast with Sharon Salzberg.
2:14.8	I'm Lily Cushman. I produce this podcast. And today we're coming to you with another episode of our anxiety series, a new series where Sharon is speaking to
2:20.0	mental health experts, providers, different researchers, and spiritual teachers, all to garner
2:27.5	tools to work with anxiety in these increasingly challenging times.
2:39.5	So for episode 261, we have Jenny Tates joining the series.
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