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Calm it Down

The Weight of Worry: Learning to Let Go

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8678 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Drowning in a sea of what-ifs and worries? This episode shows you how to sort through the mental noise and figure out which concerns actually deserve your attention. Learn practical ways to turn anxious thoughts into meaningful action - or simply just letting them go. Ready to breathe a bit? Ready to breathe a little easier? Ready to let go of worry? Let’s Calm it Down in 3...2...1.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, random question.

0:04.6

You know that feeling when you're carrying way too many grocery bags all at once?

0:10.0

Your fingers are turning purple and the plastic is cutting into your skin, but gosh darn it,

0:15.7

you are determined to make it all in one trip.

0:20.1

We've all been there, right? I mean, the physical strain

0:23.2

carrying too much. Well, when I'm about the weight we can't see. The mental grocery bags

0:32.8

that were carrying around day after day, filled with worries. Maybe there was a cell on worries about work or

0:41.7

relationships or the future or that embarrassing thing that we said three years ago at a party

0:47.0

that nobody else remembers but somehow still keeps you up at night. I'm not alone in this.

0:53.8

Am I? Our minds can be like that, right?

0:57.7

Just holding on to every worry, every concern, just trying to carry it all at once.

1:04.6

And just like those grocery bags leaving marks on our fingers, those mental burdens,

1:14.5

they leave their own kind of mark on our well-being. Today we're going to talk about how to lighten the load, how to decide which

1:21.6

worries deserve space, and our mental shopping cart, and which one that we can leave at the store.

1:29.5

Because here's the thing, not every worry needs to come home with you.

1:36.4

Oh, I'm going to say that again.

1:38.4

Not every worry needs to come home with you.

1:43.5

I'm Chan Lawson, and let's comment down in three, two, one.

1:54.7

Years ago, I was teaching one of our sons how to ride a bike.

1:58.3

This is ages ago.

1:59.9

He was so excited to try, But the moment he got on,

2:03.2

oh my gosh, I mean, just the worries. I mean, they started flooding in. What if I fall? What if

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