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Back to EpisodesA New Approach to Relieving Stress & Anxiety (and Improving "Emotional" Health) | with Nick Wignall
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Nick Wignall is a board-certified clinical psychologist specializing in cognitive and behavioral psychology. Nick also writes a weekly newsletter called The Friendly Mind, which offers simple. practical advice for emotional health and wellbeing.
With the endless supply of challenges this year has delivered to us, including recession, the rise of AI, and the Hollywood strikes (to name just a few), anxiety has been on the rise and we’ve never been more desperate for solutions. Nick offers us an abundance of solutions to this evergreen topic, addressing anxiety in all aspects of life including the workplace.
In our conversation, Nick and I dissect what anxiety really is and peel each of its layers to help you identify how to deal with it. Nick gives us some great tips on how to work with your anxiety so you can still live your life and even make important decisions despite feeling anxious. Lastly, Nick reveals the benefits of training our minds to worry at specific times of the day and more importantly, how to do it.
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Here's What You'll Learn:
- How Nick helps those who aren't clinically anxious but need more than self help books.
- The difference between mental health and emotional health
- How trying to help people with anxiety led to Nick having anxiety himself
- Why it's not a good idea to hold off decision making until you're less anxious and what you should do instead
- What anxiety really is and why it's perfectly normal
- Why 'negative' emotions aren't really bad
- Why understanding your emotions is vital to addressing your anxiety
- The different types of fear and how knowing which type you're experiencing can help in your decision making
- How to make a decision (especially big ones) amid a difficult emotion
- The different layers of anxiety and how understanding them can help you identify your next action step to address your anxiety
- Why values, even though they're generally good, aren't always helpful
- Why is it important to know which of your values are operating but aren't being helpful to you
- How values come in conflict with each other and what can you do when it happens
- Why it's important to constantly update your values and how to do it
- What is 'scheduled worry,' why it works in addressing anxiety and how to do it
Useful Resources Mentioned:
Ramit Sethi Podcast Interview on Forging Your Own Rich Life: Episode 105
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts: Chapman, Gary