Dr. Russell Kennedy is a neuroscientist specialising in anxiety treatment, a physician, and an author.
Why is anxiety so common now? It once helped us survive, like when lions chased us. But today, we feel it even when there's no real threat. So what's going on? What does science say about this ancient emotion, and how can we manage it in the modern world?
Expect to learn why anxiety is so common nowadays, the neuroscience of why we worry, the big differences between anxiety and worry, the biggest triggers of anxiety and how to manage them better, how to undo-chronic anxiety and how anxiety shows up differently for men and women, if it is it a blessing or a curse to feel things deeply, where people pleasing come from neurologically and much more…
00:00:00 Why Is Anxiety So Common
00:05:41 Where Fear of Uncertainty Comes From
00:10:45 How Uncertainty Anxiety Can Manifest Itself
00:14:43 The Default Mode Network
00:17:00 How Worry Affects Anxiety
00:19:19 Why Does Rumination Feel Good?
00:24:15 Can Anxiety Be Mislabeled?
00:26:08 A Meditation to Locate & Reduce Anxiety
00:32:48 The Goggins Cortex
00:33:43 How to Deal with Unwanted Anxiousness
00:37:01 We are Addicted to Uncertainty
00:39:56 Talk Therapy & ACT Therapy
00:47:33 How Effective is Medication?
00:50:07 Can We Undo Chronic Anxiety?
00:53:57 Is it Necessary to Heal Our Past?
00:55:47 How Does Anxiety Show Up Differently for Men & Women?
00:58:50 Is Feeling Deeply a Blessing or a Curse?
01:01:47 When the Traditional Approach Doesn't Work
01:04:50 S.H.O.U.L.D.
01:06:13 Dr. Russell's Courses & Information Materials