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

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ONLY talking about our challenges just adds to the incessant internal mental chatter we already are suffering from, but by going into the soma/body too, this allows us to discharge the energy/past experience which is fuelling the anxious thoughts, thus truly breaking anxiety loops we are stuck in. With an inner child ally, it becomes easy to see that the negative thoughts cannot possibly be true. Instead of your anxiety completely controlling you, I will show you how to completely control your anxiety.

It came as no surprise that my first marriage landed me in a domestic violence refuge and my second marriage was emotional unavailable. Kennedy at a conference over the course of several days - and he sure knows how to make a lasting impression: professional through and through, sharp, witty, and kind.I don’t begrudge him the potential of these drugs, but a lot of his musings about it feel esoteric and not particularly grounded in reality.

It took me years of struggling through painful, debilitating worrying before I finally unlocked new, non-traditional methods to ease and heal my pain. 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. Also like a lot of readers, I am familiar with other books, teachings and modalities in the emotional suffering and healing world: The Power of Now, Radical Acceptance, yoga, Buddhism, Byron Katie, Gabor Mate, mindfulness meditation, psychedelic psychotherapy and so forth. Today’s clip is from episode 370 of the podcast with medical doctor and neuroscientist, Dr Russell Kennedy.It is quite logical, not just focusing on the problem, gives possible solution, but I am not sure if it works yet. While the techniques described in the book are simple, it is not easy to change the way you think and approach situations that trigger anxiety.

Full of truth and humor, Anxiety Rx takes the reader on a healing journey, with a deep dive into Dr. and a father who was raised by a schizophrenic father, who was often taken ‘away’, my dad bring the eldest bore the weight of man as a boy. Dr Russell Kennedy is a medical doctor, neuroscientist, and someone who suffered with crippling anxiety for over 30 years. Kennedy ever creates a teacher certification program I would definitely sign up, because it would be incredibly meaningful to help others overcome decades of emotional pain.I grew up in a home where my mother was emotionally vacant, (she was raised in a children’s home as her father was an alcoholic and her own mother just couldn’t cope). I have read this book twice now and I have only just commenced my journey incorporating the ABC practice into my daily life. I am a mental health therapist with my own trauma history and I have read more books on anxiety and trauma than I could possibly count. My own mental health wasn’t the best I started with panic attacks as a teenager, and was sexually abused numerous times as a small child. Russ offers techniques not only for our thinking minds, but for our feeling bodies, changing not just our mindset, but our 'body-set'.