Stepping Off the Path of Anxiety
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Many of the most painful or troubling emotions we experience are reactions to events that have actually happened - but one powerful and sometimes paralyzing feeling can be provoked by things as yet to occur. Say hello to anxiety.
Psychotherapist and meditation teacher Andrea Wachter spent much of her life being stalked by the physical and mental manifestations of anxiety - the brain fog and the pit of the stomach dread of something bad looming on the horizon. She's amassed a wealth of strategies to overcome the thoughts and sensations that make up anxiety and she explains them to Dr Laurie Santos.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:13.6 | Over the past few weeks, we've been exploring how to better navigate our negative emotions. |
| 0:18.4 | So far we've seen that even though it's uncomfortable to sit with our messy feelings, |
| 0:22.5 | committing to getting curious about these sensations and facing them head on |
| 0:26.4 | might be an unexpected key to a happier life. |
| 0:29.3 | In this episode, we're going to tackle a nasty feeling one that I suffer from a lot. |
| 0:33.9 | Today we're in the company of anxiety. |
| 0:36.4 | Well, I sort of feel like I was born bracing for impact. |
| 0:40.3 | I came out what I call a sensitive breed and many people who struggle with anxiety can relate to that. |
| 0:46.8 | Just always felt more fragile than certainly my siblings and most of my friends. |
| 0:53.0 | And that level of sensitivity led to a lot of anxiety. |
| 0:57.6 | This is psychotherapist, author and meditation teacher Andrea Waukner. |
| 1:01.6 | Nobody decides I'm going to wake up at 2 in the morning and worry. |
| 1:05.2 | Nobody decides I'm going to have a pit in my stomach all afternoon and feel shaky. |
| 1:09.2 | It's just it's these takeover mechanisms that happen automatically and unconsciously. |
| 1:14.7 | And that's why I think we need so many tools to help us out. |
| 1:18.3 | Andrea knows how awful anxiety feels because she's experienced it a lot herself. |
| 1:23.0 | But she's also developed a suite of tools we can all use to face this emotion head on |
| 1:27.4 | and to feel better. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos and this is the Happiness Lab. |
| 1:36.5 | Andrea is no stranger to anxiety. |
| 1:38.4 | For more than 30 years she's been passionate about providing people with strategies they can use |
| 1:42.9 | to regulate this emotion. |
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