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Fear Isn’t the Enemy: ER Physician Dr. Dana Cowles on Anxiety, Trauma, and Human Resilience | With Amb. Elisha
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In this deeply eye-opening conversation, Dr. Dana Cowles, an emergency medicine physician with over 20 years of frontline experience, joins Amb. Elisha to unpack the true role of fear, anxiety, trauma, and helplessness in human life and modern society.
Drawing from a childhood car accident, decades in emergency rooms across Florida and New York, and firsthand experience treating COVID-19 patients, Dr. Cowles explains why fear is not a weakness, but a critical survival tool. He challenges the modern obsession with eliminating anxiety and reveals how the real danger lies in helplessness, not fear itself.
This episode explores:
• Why fear and anxiety are biologically useful
• How trauma and PTSD are rooted in helplessness
• What COVID taught doctors about uncertainty and science in real time
• Why the modern “pursuit of happiness” is quietly destabilizing society
• The difference between euphoric happiness, security, and affirmation
If you’ve ever struggled with anxiety, questioned modern mental health narratives, or wondered why comfort-driven culture leaves people emptier—not fulfilled—this episode will shift how you think forever.
Reach Dana: http://www.cowlesemergencyservices.com/
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