Dr. David Rosmarin

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · The Secret to Stopping Anxiety & Fear (That Actually Works) · 26 May 2025 podcast

Great.

It is terrifying, but therein lies the opportunity. That's what creates the opportunity for self-discovery. The reason you're freaking out about it is because it matters. So identify what's at the root of it. Share it with someone else. Embrace it when you're ready. And then the next step is letting go, which is the hardest one. But that's where it's really all about.

I think all human beings would benefit from acknowledging the limits of what we can control. And leaning into that and letting go, there's a difference between losing control where it's taken away from us involuntarily versus giving up control like you do on a roller coaster. True. That latter experience when we don't have control over a situation. So if we're like, okay, it ain't my wheel. Right.

Then the anxiety can actually be an uplifting, exhilarating experience where we lean into the fact that we aren't in control and that's okay.

Yes. That somehow something in your humanity will be able to rise to the challenge. Who knows how? Who knows when? Who knows where? Methods are unclear. The path is opaque. But I'm going to continue to trot along it with some sort of level of surrender.

Right, or California wildfires.

This is where the let go comes in. There is only so much that human beings can control in this world. I don't want that answer. You know, you're the one who says it.

I can't face my own anxiety. Like you wouldn't believe and letting go. The truth is coming from a spiritual and religious tradition. Like I think I have an advantage here because this is the kind of message that I've been, you know, brought up with and that I, you know, attend sermons about and, human beings are not the architects of all of world events. That's just not the way it goes.

We're not in charge of the weather. We're not in charge of certain things, but we're in charge of a lot. And by refocusing on that, which is within our purview and is within our control, that's using anxiety in a constructive, positive way, because that will motivate me to get up in the morning, do what I got to do, push ahead, face that adversity, and

have a dream and move towards it as opposed to trying to grasp control over stuff that I don't.

I mean, I don't think you need to be an expert to know that one.

For sure. I mean, off the cuff, when you feel anxious, don't squelch it. Don't get rid of the symptoms. Don't try to avoid it in your mind. Actually take the time to do a mental inventory. Okay. That could start with a brain dump, as my wife likes to call it. Just dump all the thoughts out, unravel the yarn, take whatever's in your pockets and put it on the table. And then just let it sit there.

That could take 10, 15 minutes. Okay.

Okay. Okay. What does that mean? There's going to be one or two trees, so to speak, that have roots and they really go down to a certain level. Sometimes really need to identify them from the other stuff. Often people come in and I ask them, what are you anxious about? And 30 minutes later, it's like, okay, I think there are two or three main themes here. Okay.

You can even put it into chat GPT and say like, what are my two main themes?

It's a language processor, right? So you can theoretically just do that.

Yeah.

Dig.

Embrace. We're just identifying.

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