Dr. Russell Kennedy is a neuroscientist specializing in anxiety treatment, physician, and an author.
Why is anxiety so common now? It once helped us survive, like when we were being chased by lions. 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…
Mentioned Books
“Where people at home can sort of follow along Sure Okay”
For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from…
“I found out from Scott Barry Kaufman that Seligman's learned helplessness theory hasn't replicated”
The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whos…
“Men, it shows up more with irritability. It shows up with the inability to really feel. And Lisa Feldman, who wrote this great book called How Emotions Are Made. And in that book, she says, the more emotion words you know, the more emotionally literate you are,”
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical…
“It got pushed into your unconscious mind and because the body is a representation of the unconscious mind The body keeps the score and that trauma gets stored in your body and it sort of has this sort of Nature of it and through this process called interoception the brain is always reading the body”
