The Science of Optimism, Your Emotional Immune System and How to Boost Resiliency with Dr. Sue Varma

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Dr. Sue Varma is a board-certified psychiatrist in private practice and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University (NYU) Langone Health. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Varma was the first medical director and attending psychiatrist to the World Trade Center Mental Health Program at NYU Langone Health, treating civilians and first-responders in the aftermath of 9/11. She joins the show to discuss how to be more optimistic and the myriad health benefits that result from implementing what she calls “practical optimism” in our lives. She explains the emotional immune system, how to be more resilient, toxic positivity vs. optimism, productive and unproductive worry, stress management and anti-aging, navigating trauma and more.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Blond Files podcast.
0:09.0	I'm your host Arielle Lori and I'm here to talk all things
0:12.0	wellness from how to achieve optimal health and well being to the best beauty tips and everything in between no topic is off limits.
0:20.3	I know there's so much information out there so I am bringing on expert guests and
0:24.8	sharing my own experiences to help you sift through all the wellness stuff
0:28.1	without the BS. Enjoy the show.
0:31.1	Hi everybody welcome to the show. I have such an amazing episode for you today.
0:39.1	This was one of my favorite conversations that I have had recently and I know that I say that about every episode,
0:45.9	but I really, really connected with my guest and everything that she had to share and I just think it is so fascinating because we are talking about
0:55.3	optimism and practical optimism which you will learn about in this episode but my guest
1:01.2	Dr. Sue Varma, had so many studies and data to back up these concepts that we were talking about.
1:10.7	So we are talking about optimism and we're talking about our emotional immune system and
1:16.6	how to boost our mood and decrease anxiety and boost resiliency but she shares
1:22.2	these incredible studies where, you know, they show how optimism
1:27.3	helps with wound healing, how it is beneficial for stress and anti-aging and really, really compelling data and I know that you guys really like the science.
1:38.0	So you're gonna love this episode.
1:40.0	So a little bit about my guest, Dr. Sue Varma is a board certified psychiatrist in private practice and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at New York University.
1:51.0	She is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
1:55.0	Dr. Varma was the first medical director and attending psychiatrist to the World Trade Center
2:00.0	Mental Health Program at NYU, treating civilians and first responders in the aftermath of 9-11.
2:06.7	She is also a nationally acclaimed keynote speaker, medical contributor, media advisor, and consultant to the major networks and shows.
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