Podcast Mentions
Good Anxiety Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion
Dr Wendy Suzuki
World-renowned neuroscientist and author of We are living in the age of anxiety, a situation that often makes us feel as if we are locked into an endless cycle of stress, sleeplessness, and worry. But what if we had a way to leverage our anxiety to help us solve problems and fortify our well-being?...
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The book explored the nature of everyday anxiety and how it's increased, as well as suggesting methods to manage and turn down the volume of anxiety.
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My argument in Good Anxiety, my book Good Anxiety, is that these prickly emotions, these difficult emotions like anxiety, like sadness are really, really valuable because they're focusing us on things...
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The book explored the nature of everyday anxiety and how it's increased, as well as suggesting methods to manage and turn down the volume of anxiety.
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My argument in Good Anxiety, my book Good Anxiety, is that these prickly emotions, these difficult emotions like anxiety, like sadness are really, really valuable because they're focusing us on things that we should be paying attention to, specifically anxiety.
I put it aside because I couldn't write when I was going through this terrible grief and had to do something that I'd never ever had to do.
And it was in the middle of writing the book, Good Anxiety.
And I realized that if I could find the wisdom and the power of the most horrible emotion, I'm gonna say grief, what is the flip side of anxiety? What is the gift? What is the superpower that comes from anxiety? And I needed to find gifts and superpowers. And that's why the book got written in that way.
Because I had to go back and finish this book, Good Anxiety.
Podcast
Chasing Life
It's a book about understanding how anxiety can actually serve a positive purpose and how to harness it for good. The author was motivated to write it after losing her father and brother in a short time period.
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She's a professor of neuroscience at New York University, and she's also author of the book Good Anxiety.
— Episode: Can Anxiety Be A Good Thing?
Episode: Can Anxiety Be A Good Thing?
It's a book about understanding how anxiety can actually serve a positive purpose and how to harness it for good. The author was motivated to write it after losing her father and brother in a short time period.
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She's a professor of neuroscience at New York University, and she's also author of the book Good Anxiety.
I tragically I lost both my father, who was in his 80s and he had dementia. But also my 50 year old brother died of a heart attack in the middle of writing my book.
Oh, my good anxiety. And I thank you.
It was, of course, I stopped writing the book. I can't think of anxiety, good anxiety right now. I was mourning. It was it was the worst time I've ever gone through.
And I realized in going through that, that that difficult time and all of that grief and the waves of grief that came over that. The grief was so bad because the love was so strong.
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