How the Mental Affects the Physical

The Anxious Achiever

Morra Aarons-Mele

Careers, Management, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Anxiety and stress can have detrimental effects on your physical health — which can affect your job and your career path. In this episode, host Morra Aarons-Mele speaks with Jason Miller, the director of the Leadership Academy at OhioHealth. Miller, whose work specializes in awakening joy, purpose, and meaning in work, had always driven himself very hard. He was the first in his family to go to college, followed by becoming a senior executive at a global company. But then Miller found himself in the ER, convinced he was having a heart attack and realized he needed to make some major changes (and no, he didn't Eat, Pray, Love). Morra also shares her own story of a recent panic attack that left her hospitalized. Plus, Dr. David Barlow, a pioneer in the field of treating stress, discusses strategies for coping with anxiety, stress, and phobias, and how to "right size" your problems — while admitting anxiety isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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0:00.0	When they pulled up and because of the symptoms I was having, they immediately put me in a wheelchair.
0:06.4	And I was thinking, what must Ethan be thinking right now?
0:12.0	As I'm getting wheeled, wheeled into the emergency room.
0:17.5	I was so scared for him.
0:19.7	And I remember laying on my bed in the emergency room. I was so scared for him. And I remember laying on my bed in the emergency room. I'll just, I'll never
0:26.6	forget, he came up to me, put his hand on my arm. And he said, Dad, are you okay? I'm Maura Aaron's Mealy, and this is the anxious achiever.
0:40.1	Each episode, we look at stories from business leaders who have dealt with anxiety, depression,
0:44.8	or other mental health challenges, how they fell down, how they picked themselves up,
0:49.3	and how they hope workplaces can change in the future.
1:00.7	Yeah. workplaces can change in the future. Today on The Anxious Achiever, how the mental affects the physical.
1:06.9	The irony of anxiety.
1:10.0	Because today we're going to talk to a guest whose stress and anxiety landed him in the hospital.
1:16.7	And you'll hear my story of landing in the hospital too.
1:21.2	But we'll also talk to Dr. David Barlow, who is truly one of the founders, originators and deep thinkers around modern-day
1:30.6	therapeutic treatments for anxiety.
1:33.0	He is founder and director emeritus of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders
1:37.0	at Boston University.
1:39.7	Dr. Barlow maintains that anxiety is necessary.
1:44.5	The key is to right-size your anxiety, if you will.
1:49.0	Find the Goldilocks level of anxiety.
1:52.3	Barlow says without anxiety, little would be accomplished.
1:55.1	The performance of our athletes, entertainers, executives, artisans, and students would suffer.
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