Your Trickiest Mental Health Questions—Finally Answered (By a World-Renowned Therapist)

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Why are we so stressed, and how can we deal with feeling powerless when the circumstances that cause our stress are completely out of our control? Sometimes improving your mental health is about the small moments we can control, and Dr. Julie Smith is sharing tips and tricks to help you find and get the most out of those moments. From health anxiety to world news, Dr. Julie’s tools you can use to tackle your fears and pull yourself out of a funk. We begin by discussing one of the most common listener questions I get — what do you do when you know what will make you feel better, but can’t bring yourself to do it? From there, we discuss tackling fears, finding purpose, and supporting your loved ones. As always, the episode offers actionable tips to help you improve your mental health now. 1:35 Why Can’t We Do the Things We Know Will Make Us Feel Better? 8:36 Stressors We Can’t Change 11:17 Feeling Powerless 19:50 Grounding Yourself 25:41 Facing Fears 37:35 Health Anxiety 39:16 Getting Comfortable with Uncertainty 46:25 What If Your Needs Aren’t Attainable? 50:35 Social Anxiety 55:01 Supporting a Depressed Partner 59:41Therapy Tricks For more from Dr. Julie Smith, find her on Instagram @drjulie or online at www.drjulie.uk. Order Dr. Smith’s new book Open When: A Companion for Life's Twists & Turns. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. This episode is sponsored by: AG1: visit drinkag1.com/lizmoody and get your FREE welcome kit, Vitamin D, and 5 travel packs today. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 323. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I know the things that will make me feel better, but I cannot make myself do them.
0:03.8	What is going on there and how can we break through that?
0:06.1	Your attention and how you spend your time is everything.
0:10.4	What are your best tips for social anxiety?
0:12.5	You can't control the fact that fear is here, but you can use it to your advantage.
0:17.8	Let's say we're in a rumination spiral. What do we do to stop that?
0:21.7	These are just tools that help us deal with all that human stuff. They don't stop it from happening.
0:26.7	So what we don't want to do is get down on ourselves for being human. We just want to use the tools.
0:32.2	Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. Today's guest is the incredible
0:37.3	Dr. Julie Smith.
0:38.9	You've probably seen Julie's advice on social media where she has millions of followers
0:42.7	or in her bestselling books, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before and Open When?
0:47.7	She famously turns therapy concepts into actionable advice that speak to the very real problems
0:53.1	that so many of us are going through.
0:55.2	And today, she is turning that helpful lens towards the trickiest mental health issues that you
1:00.4	all sent in. All of those unsolvable problems that take up space in your brain day after day,
1:06.7	those are what we are getting into today. This is such a grounded, validating conversation that
1:11.8	is packed with takeaways. And if you would like a cheat sheet of all of the key insights,
1:16.7	you can find that in our free newsletter at lizmoody.substack.com, where we break down every
1:21.7	episode with action steps, challenges, and more. Dr. Julie Smith, welcome to the podcast.
1:26.6	We're going to get into a lot of things that
1:30.0	people sent in, basically their trickiest mental health issues and something that I heard a lot
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