How to calm your anxiety, from a neuroscientist | Wendy Suzuki

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🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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What if you could transform your anxiety into something you can actually use during your work day? Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki shares two evidence-based activities -- breathing and movement -- that can soothe your nervous system and fuel creativity and connection.

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0:13.9	Global anxiety levels are on the way up in recent years and anecdotally, that feels true.
0:20.4	In our episode for the way we work series, Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki offers science-based
0:25.6	tools to turn down the volume on our anxiety.
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