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For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines.

She's started very young.

She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships.

And now, during these insane times in our world,

Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity.

This is sideline sanity with your host,

one of the sanest people on planet Earth.

Michelle Tofoya.

The planet earth. Michelle Tofoya. So what are you anxious about? I experience anxiety probably quite a bit. And I think a lot of people

do. In fact, I mean, the statistics say that about a third of all Americans will have some sort of anxiety experience over the course of their lifetime.

But I recently saw an article in the Wall Street Journal that caught my eye, and I'm really hoping this can help you with your anxiety.

It's entitled, In Praise of Anxiety, rather than suppress this misunderstood emotion, we need to understand its essential evolutionary role in motivating us to action. And the author, Tracy Dennis Tuari, is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the emotion regulation

lab at Hunter College.

She joins us now.

How do you like to be called Dr. Tracy, Dr. Dennis Tuari, what should I call you?

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