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296. Navigating Psychological Avoidance: A Conversation With Dr. Luana Marques

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

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How to Deal With Anxiety

The easy way is anxiety would demand an action right go opposite action always don't do what anxiety is telling you to do if you're feeling anxious the visual I have is a really silly one but it's like when I'm in amygdala hijack is like my prefrontal cortex is out having margarita's friends like it's not in my brain it's just not nowhere to be found right and so I love what you said to me it's like pause and don't react I love that idea like do whatever will feel worse because I often teach like sort of we're going towards what I call like barf club but like you're trying to get uncomfortable yes that's exactly right okay. So

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