Harness the Power of Your Anxiety with Dr. Chloe Carmichael

Modern Mentor

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Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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If you've ever felt like your anxiety has been holding you back, then this interview with Dr. Chloe Carmichael is a must-listen for you. In her new book Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety, Dr. Chloe shares her favorite tools for taking control of your anxiety and using it to fuel your professional—and personal—success. Get Dr. Chloe's book on Amazon, Bookshop.org, or your local bookstore. Modern Mentor is hosted by Rachel Cooke. Find Modern Mentor on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, or subscribe to the newsletter to get more tips to fuel your professional success. Modern Mentor is a part of Quick and Dirty Tips. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/ https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/modern-mentor-newsletter https://www.facebook.com/QDTModernMentor https://twitter.com/QDTModernMentor https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-mentor-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.
0:21.8	And today's episode is for anyone who has ever felt like they need to run away from or turn off their anxiety.
0:28.1	Because I'm joined by Dr. Chloe Carmichael, clinical psychologist and author of the new book,
0:33.3	Nervous Energy, Harness the Power of Your Anxiety.
0:36.6	She joined me for a conversation about how
0:38.7	anxiety can actually be your superpower. You just need the tools to harness it. In this episode,
0:44.0	we talk about what anxiety really is, why it gets a bad rap, and what Dr. Chloe's favorite simple
0:50.0	tools are for harnessing its power to fuel you. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Dr. Chloe Carmichael,
0:57.2	author of Nervous Energy, Harness the Power of Your Anxiety. Welcome to Modern Mentor. Thank you for being
1:03.1	with me today. Thanks, Rachel. It's great to be with you. Wonderful. Well, congratulations on the book.
1:09.2	I read it. I loved it. I resonated with it. I felt like parts of your story felt similar to mine. I would love it if you would start by just giving us a little bit of context to what inspired you to write the book and why now.
1:22.9	Sure. So my practice as a clinical psychologist was on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and we were doing
1:31.2	really well, but I'm sorry to say the sessions were not exactly affordable. And I was getting calls
1:38.8	from all over the world, which made me so happy. I was so happy that my message was getting out there and resonating with
1:45.6	people, but I felt kind of bad that it wasn't possible to accommodate all the individual
1:52.2	session requests. And then here's the interesting part. I realized that anxiety has actually
1:59.7	been shown to be very receptive to self-help because people with
2:05.4	anxiety do have that nervous energy. They'll read the directions. They'll double check.
2:10.7	They'll complete the steps. And so they actually tend to be very well helped by some self-help
2:15.9	books. So I decided to go ahead and share nine of my
2:19.7	best techniques along with some stories about my practice and my own journey in this book.
2:25.5	It's such a great story. And by the way, as a person who definitely carries some anxiety of my
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