How to Turn Anxiety Into a Superpower | Dr. Wendy Suzuki

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Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Have you ever felt overwhelmed or helpless in the face of anxiety? Like the more you try to manage it, the more out of control it becomes? Maybe it’s in social situations where you’re surrounded by new people or work situations where it’s so easy to start spinning about everything from how you’ll be perceived to what happens if you stumble. Or, maybe it's just about the state of your life, relationships, family, community, or even the world. If that’s you, you're not alone.

But, what if anxiety was actually just a particular type of energy that could be transformed into something akin to a superpower? This is the bold idea offered by my guest today, Professor Wendy Suzuki. Her latest book, Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion, explores how to use anxiety as a superpower. Wendy is passionate about helping people understand the phenomenon of anxiety and how to reframe it in order to lead a more fulfilling life and offers science-based strategies to help us turn the volume down on our anxiety responses.

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0:00.0	The emotion of anxiety is not a disease.
0:03.6	It is a normal human emotion and evolutionarily,
0:08.0	that evolves to protect us from danger.
0:12.2	And that is why we are here today.
0:14.7	People can use this okay.
0:16.0	I get that.
0:16.8	That sounds good.
0:17.6	I buy that.
0:18.5	But still, I'm not feeling protected.
0:20.7	One, eight, two, beats a little bit from my anxiety.
0:24.2	And the answer is, no, we're not.
0:27.2	Because the volume of our anxiety is turned up way high.
0:31.2	And so the big part of the book, Good Anxiety,
0:34.3	is about providing science-based approaches
0:37.9	to turn the volume down, not to get rid of it.
0:40.3	Again, it's normal human emotion.
0:42.1	But to start to turn it down.
0:43.8	So have you ever felt overwhelmed or helpless
0:48.4	in the face of anxiety?
0:50.2	Kind of like the more you try to manage it,
0:52.0	the more out of control it becomes.
0:54.5	Maybe it's in social situations where you're surrounded
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