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Understanding Anxiety

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

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Controlling What You Can While Tolerating That You Don't Have Control

Anxiety treatments tend to focus on allowing your brain to settle down around the reality of what you can't control. Dr. Srinarsh would often say, we have to make a choice between productive discomfort or unproductive discomfort. We only have a choice about whether or not that anxiety is expanding us versus constricting us. And so people that live well live expansively - there's a lot of aero synergy in those marriages.

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