Engage in Creative Activities to Alleviate Anxiety

Engaging in creative activities helps to alleviate anxiety as it shifts focus from worry to creation. Watching inspiring speeches like Neil Gaiman's commencement speech can reinforce the idea. Websites offering gesture poses can also be used at home to mimic a class setting. Participating in a class not only offers diversity and motion but also engages the right hemisphere of the brain, which is often overlooked in a culture that overemphasizes left hemisphere functions.

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Dr. Martha Beck has been called “the best-known life coach in America” by NPR and USA Today. She holds three Harvard degrees in social science and has published nine non-fiction books, one novel, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her recent book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, was an instant New York Times Best Seller.

Timestamps for this episode are available below.

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Start

[06:06] My contribution to teen atrociousness.

[06:40] Connecting with Boyd Varty.

[12:27] The path of not here.

[16:38] Finding joy in the body can save your life.

[21:17] The pregnant pause that ended Martha's obsession with intellect.

[26:51] Sensitivity and suffering.

[30:14] The year of living lie-lessly.

[35:36] An illuminating change of perspective.

[46:14] The path to taking a black belt integrity cleanse.

[49:42] Owning your right to say "No."