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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

More Happier: How to Build Your Own Anxiety Emergency Kit [Revisited]

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? This Revisited episode shares our Emergency Kit—small, practical strategies to interrupt the spiral when everything feels like too much.

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0:00.0

Gretchen, you and I both love Whole Foods Market.

0:04.8

It's fall. I am trying to entertain more, and I love to go to Whole Foods Market for entertaining or just for my everyday needs.

0:14.8

The 365 by Whole Foods Market brand always has great quality and great prices. Plus, you can shop low

0:24.3

price everyday items in the store and online with convenient pickup and seamless delivery.

0:31.5

Right. It's a combination we all want, which is really good prices and also really good quality

0:36.0

products. They have hundreds of yellow low price

0:39.2

signs that make it easy to save without compromising the quality and ingredient standards that

0:45.3

you expect from Whole Foods market. Yes. You know I'm not much of a chef, but I do know that

0:51.5

when I go to Whole Foods, I can figure out something good to offer my guests that I can be proud of. Enjoy so many ways to save on cozy fall meals at Whole Foods Market. Lemonada I'm Hello, we're here for more happier, a podcast where we get happier. It's the weekend. It's a looser vibe.

1:27.8

Hey, Elizabeth.

1:28.8

Hey, Grouch.

1:29.7

Now, have you been hearing what I've been hearing, which is these days, so many people are saying,

1:35.7

I'm anxious, I'm on edge, I don't feel like myself.

1:40.4

Oh, yeah, there is a lot contributing to that feeling right now.

1:43.7

And for most people, it's not one thing. It's everything all at once just adding up.

1:48.9

Yeah, absolutely. So today we are revisiting an episode with something small but really useful, an emergency kit for anxiety, worry, and stress.

1:58.6

It is a collection of quick strategies, things that you can actually do when you're feeling

2:04.2

overwhelmed.

2:05.4

We recorded this right before we were going on tour together with our live show, which

2:10.4

was exciting, but also completely chaotic and very high stress.

2:15.7

Yeah, it was one of those times where we both felt like we were running on adrenaline,

2:19.5

and we just need to find simple ways to keep steady and keep moving.

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