S3 Ep 25: How to Alleviate “False” Anxiety and Get Back into Balance

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Dr. Ellen Vora, author of The Anatomy of Anxiety, joins me this week to discuss how to identify avoidable anxiety and purposeful anxiety, as well as practical techniques for alleviating avoidable anxiety, and discerning anxiety caused by chemical imbalance from anxiety caused by circumstance. Sponsored by Quility: Quility has created a special Life Insurance guide just for Raising Good Humans listeners so visitquility.com/humans to learn more and match with your perfect policy. iHerb: Get 22% off @iherb with promo code HUMANS at iherb.com/?rcode=HUMANS BetterHelp: BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of therapy at www.betterhelp.com/HUMANS Produced by Dear Media This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a DR Media Production.
0:07.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today's episode we're
0:12.5	talking about anxiety. This time from a perspective of Dr. Ellen Vora who's a
0:18.3	psychiatrist who wrote the anatomy of anxiety, understanding and
0:22.6	overcoming the body's fear response, and through her perspective we're gonna
0:26.6	spend a lot of time on what she calls false anxiety, and that's the controllable
0:31.8	anxiety, the stuff that we can actually do something about. So why not do
0:36.4	something about it? Both for ourselves and for our kids. Ellen Vora is a board
0:41.3	certified psychiatrist. She's also an acupuncturist, a yoga teacher, and author, so
0:47.6	she really takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. So yes, she
0:52.2	has a degree from Yale and an MD from Columbia, and also it's a both-and. It's
0:58.9	not just the medical model. She also takes a holistic model. If you enjoy this
1:04.2	episode, please don't hesitate to subscribe, rate, and write a little review if
1:09.9	you have a minute, which I know nobody does, and of course you can subscribe to
1:14.0	my free substack newsletter, Dr. Lisa Pressman dot substack dot com, and I'm
1:20.9	gonna have a new season of Raising Good Humans Podcast Premium on Apple
1:25.8	Podcasts. So many fun things. Of course you can always DM me on at Raising Good
1:31.1	Humans Podcasts on my Instagram, send in some questions, I'll answer them on
1:35.7	the newsletter, on the podcasts, and on social media. Let's just define anxiety,
1:41.6	and then maybe you could separate it into false anxiety and true anxiety. So I am
1:50.4	now a little more than a year into a book tour where I've been asked to
1:53.8	define anxiety so many times, and I have refused to develop a good talking
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