Anxiety Rx

Developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld says that "All anxiety is separation anxiety", and I add that it's fundamentally a separation from within yourself. Stress and trauma in childhood that is not resolved by a loving, attuned parent or caregiver slowly splits us from the inside into a REACTIVE and an AUTHENTIC self. Like splitting the atom, this separation within ourselves creates a tremendous amount of energy that becomes stored in our system in a form I call ALARM. You can't heal from anxiety until you resolve this split and you can't resolve this ALARM and heal until you fully see, accept and embrace your own innocence. Therefore until you stop judging yourself and instead fully embrace your innocent authentic (child) self, you will always struggle with chronic emotional pain. Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S If you're ready to take command of your anxiety and not be a victim of daily chronic rumination and worry anymore, join MBRX: Your Mind Body Prescription For PERMANENT Anxiety Healing. To join 800+ MBRXER’s healing their anxiety, click here.    

Sorry i've been away for the last few weeks. I've been in Europe doing some promotion for the book and the MBRX program and then I got sick...  This week's episode I delve into the topics of over-dependence, over-responsibility, people pleasing, and the concept of alpha children. I talk about how we learn to read other people's needs when we are children and slowly neglect our own and how this self neglect and lack of self-care becomes an insidious and destructive program that separates us from our own selves internally and creates a tremendous amount of alarm.  Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S My ability to look after myself has increased exponentially, and I can still feed my need to help others by writing my book ANXIETY RX and creating MBRX while at the same time looking after myself. To join 600+ MBRXER’s healing their anxiety, click here.  

Do you feel like you're constantly living in fear and worry, unable to escape the grip of anxiety? I understand how you feel, and I want to offer you a solution that will heal the root cause of your anxiety. After working on it for a YEAR, I am excited to announce that my mind body program is almost ready for release! I know that you have many questions about how to overcome your anxiety, and the most common one I hear is, "How do I heal the alarm in my body that is driving my anxiety?". You might also be wondering if there is a step-by-step process you can follow to finally find relief. Well, I'm happy to tell you that my program answers both of these questions and more! With my program, you'll learn how to tap into the power of your mind and body to heal your anxiety from the inside out.  So get ready for something truly transformative that is going to heal the root cause of your anxiety rather than just trying to help you cope with it! COMING SOON!   Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.   You can get it by clicking here  

Many people with anxiety and alarm have a common trait of feeling overly responsible for the emotions of others. As someone who has experienced this myself, I know it can stem from childhood experiences where we felt the need to take care of our parents. It is a very anxiety provoking situation to be in control of YOUR OWN EMOTIONS let alone those of your parents, partners and children.   In this episode, I want to draw attention to how you leave your own emotional needs to automatically and reflexively look after others, and how that just makes you more anxious and alarmed.   We will explore how to identify and break free from the pattern of automatically putting others first, so that you can take care of your own emotional needs while still being there for the important people in your life.    Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.         You can get it by clicking here

When we have trauma as children our nervous system often learns that life is about avoiding pain as opposed to attending to pleasure. In other words, we adopt an unconscious strategy of chronically seeking survival instead of enjoying our growth. As we grow up, automatically, unconsciously and reflexively attuning to potential threats became a "default setting" in our mind and body that keeps us trapped in anxiety and alarm. We must first be aware of this unconscious default setting to pain and begin to make the CONSCIOUS INTENTION to attend and attune to pleasure instead. In this change in conscious intention towards growth and pleasure, we begin to overwrite the unconscious setting of protection. Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.         You can get it by clicking here    

I have had some people question how bad my anxiety was if I could do stand up comedy and work as a physician. In this episode, my daughter Leandra joins me to share her firsthand account of what I was like back then. Together, we reveal the strategies that have helped us both conquer our anxiety. This isn't just another podcast, it's a candid and heartwarming father-daughter bonding episode!  

The biggest question I get asked is "How do I heal the ALARM in my system?".  For months I've been working on this anxiety relief program from scratch and it's very close to being ready. This program is designed to show you what anxiety truly is and how you can heal from it. It contains video and audio components to help you heal your anxiety and not just cope with it. Along with neuroscience based tools to help you overcome anxiety in your mind a specific guided meditation called YOGA NIDRA is included that has been specifically created to help recover from chronic anxiety that is stored deep in your body. I wanted to give you an overview of this affordable, effective and unique mind body program that I will be releasing on May 8th 2023.  Thank you for listening. You can find me on IG here: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.   You can get it by clicking here  

In this podcast, I explore the importance of creating healthy attachments with our parents, even if it's through our own imagination, and how it can help us heal from childhood wounds. My 89 yo mother is failing and it's taking everything I have to deal with her. I didn't have a healthy attachment to her growing up, nor did I have a healthy attachment with my father. Listen in as I share my insights and experiences on reparenting ourselves, repairing family relationships, and rebuilding attachments. Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.         You can get it by clicking here  

I've never met ANYONE who suffered from chronic anxiety and didn't see themselves as a victim, including and especially ME. For the most part, anxious people were victims of trauma or unresolved emotional pain and our nervous system was trained to be on defense, which will never allow us to heal from anxiety. To heal, we must see our victim mentality and go TOWARDS our fears and not retreat from it.  Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.         You can get it by clicking here    

This episode, is the most practical and emotionally vulnerable episode of the ANXIETY Rx PODCAST so far.  In this episode, I talk about the root cause of anxiety being a separation of your adult self from your child self and the practice I do every morning of listening to Peter Gabriel's "IN YOUR EYES" because the words are about creating a connection with his younger self. I drill down to the meaning of the lyrics in relation to the art and science of healing your anxiety and alarm so you can understand create your own healing... Press play now to listen to the full episode. PS. I’m giving away a FREE chapter of my book. Click HERE to download it.