How your environment feeds your anxiety, a neuroscientist explains

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My most listened to guest of all time returns: Dr Micheal Keane. We're talking about how our environment - less so about the plants and the clouds, more so technology, social media, news, what we consume - feeds into this collective basal anxiety we probably all experience, even without being fully aware of it. This is such an interesting discussion that makes you think twice. We also hone in on fast fashion and consumerism. Remember Lily Allen's lyrics - I am a weapon of massive consumption, it's not my fault it's how I'm programmed to function'? Well that kind of sums up this episode. Crucially, he offers his expert advice on realigning with your values and moving towards your green circle (calming) to outmanoeuvre the machine. Visit actualise.ie for more on Dr Micheal Keane and follow me on @OwningItPodcast for more.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to owning it. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media. If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column. Listeners of the pod get a 20% discount forever at carolinephorun.substack.com. Thank you.
0:28.2	Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. This week, I'm so thrilled to be rejoined by a guest that I had on many moons ago,
0:34.4	and actually he was my most listened to, to this date still is the most listened
0:38.6	to guest, whether celebrity or expert or otherwise, Dr. Michael Kane, who came on before to
0:45.3	perfectly explain your anxiety. I'm so delighted to that he was able to come back. This time we're
0:50.3	talking about something a little bit different, which is the basal level of anxiety that we all experience as a result of our environment.
0:57.3	So technology, our phones, consumerism, capitalism, politics, everything.
1:02.1	You can check him out on his website, actualise.e, if you want to learn more about getting your mind map or any kind of brain stuff.
1:09.1	He is just the best in the business.
1:11.5	This was super interesting for me and helpful and I hope it's the same for you. Thank you as
1:14.6	always for listening and for sharing.
1:23.6	Dr Michael Kane, thank you so much for returning to owning it the Anxiety podcast.
1:29.7	It's so good to have you.
1:31.1	I have to tell you, you are the most listened to guest, celebrity or expert or otherwise, that I've ever had.
1:39.3	That's great to hear.
1:40.5	Thanks for having me back.
1:41.9	Today we're talking about a subject that I think is so
1:47.1	subtle, but so powerful that is in everyone's life. Everyone is affected by this and it's our
1:54.2	environment. You being a behavioral neuroscientist have a real insight into this and you're really
1:58.7	interested in this topic as well. And you think this is the big one that we need to pay attention to, right? It is. We talk about anxiety and you talk
2:05.7	about anxiety and everybody talks about their own anxiety and the work that they have to do
2:09.4	internally, you know, people do CBT and therapy and all sorts of interesting things. And all of
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