Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

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Russell’s core message has the potential to be transformative – that it’s more effective to use the body to calm the mind, than the mind to calm the body. He understood that existing therapies focused only on the mind would never get to the root of the problem – at best, they could help manage symptoms, but they’d never truly heal anxiety. To solve it, learn to recognize when it’s happening, accept those thoughts are irrational, practice grounding techniques (google it), breath work and yoga.

My guest on this episode, believes that understanding where this feeling lives inside your body is the key to treating anxiety – for good. After years of trying different therapies for his crippling anxiety without success, Dr Russell Kennedy had an epiphany: anxiety does not start in the brain. I have degrees and advanced training in medicine, neuroscience, and developmental psychology, but much of what I'll share came out of my experiences in very unscientific places. Kennedy’s advice boils down to the fact that anxiety in our heads isn’t what we should be paying attention to - it’s the sense of alarm in our bodies. This book has revolutionised the way I deal with being triggered, I don’t get it right every time but I’m getting a better handle on my anxiety and alarm.I have every one of these letters from my childhood, and had to skip parts of the ALARMS section because it was too overwhelming. The insights and simple practices in this book will put you on the path to self-healing and keep you there. The self-awareness and aliveness it evokes is sheer magic, the way you connect back to yourself, namely the younger self, the younger wounded self, that still lives in your energy field as residual energy, just waiting to be processed and addressed, waiting for the attention and needs that weren't met in the past by our caregivers, to be met now, by the more wiser part of you. I would recommend listening to this book if you are experiencing feelings of anxiety because it does work if you work it.

If you ever feel anxious, whether that’s a low-level worry, a sudden fear, or full-on panic, can you sense where it’s coming from in your body? The book dives into why we have alarm in our body, how it’s different from anxiety of the mind, and what the heck to actually do about it. Download any episodes you want saved to your device so you can listen to them anytime (with or without wifi); otherwise, just hit play. The author’s high regard of his ‘own’ knowledge can be recognised by the fact he keeps on repeating himself, eventhough he seems to be aware of speaking nonsense sometimes. But learning to understand it and use it for the better is an option and that’s what this book focuses on.There are certainly aspects of using your mind, but his main premise is you cant stay in the burning house of your mind and try to put out the fire, you must get out and then objectively look from outside back into the burning house once you are safe.

For Russell, healing starts by finding out where anxiety lives inside your body and during our conversation, Russell walks you through how exactly you can start doing that. This is beyond a book to be honest, it's the key to your healing, not masking, but healing, at the core of your being!All in all, if you struggle with anxiety, I think you will probably benefit from reading this, as I have, but be prepared for a long read and a lot of eye rolling along the way. Instead of your anxiety completely controlling you, I will show you how to completely control your anxiety.

In Russell’s view, most treatments for anxiety, including medication and CBT, fail in the long term. In the millisecond after the body feels the alarm, the mind scrolls through the rolodex of potential fears to justify the panicked feeling.Realizing my anxiety is the concern of my younger self asking if everything is gonna be alright is a treasured gift for which I am truly grateful and will take with me. Thank you Russell, for a super inciteful set of insights that can be applied real-time in our lives for a more calmful existence! My dad has always lovingly helped me with my own anxiety and I have learned more about relieving it from him than from any other means bar none. As a father himself he had violent rages often that seemed to come from nowhere to me as a child, removing internal doors off hinges and throwing them out into the yard, just because maybe it wasn’t closed when it should be or someone had hung a coat over it? The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.