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Dr. Russell Kennedy

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Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And of course they're going to feel like they're broken and they're never getting it fixed because you're not actually getting at the root cause of the problem. You're treating a symptom. So if you have an infection and you have a fever, you can treat the fever with Tylenol, but it's not going to do anything for the underlying infection, which is kind of the analogy that they draw with this.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And of course they're going to feel like they're broken and they're never getting it fixed because you're not actually getting at the root cause of the problem. You're treating a symptom. So if you have an infection and you have a fever, you can treat the fever with Tylenol, but it's not going to do anything for the underlying infection, which is kind of the analogy that they draw with this.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And of course they're going to feel like they're broken and they're never getting it fixed because you're not actually getting at the root cause of the problem. You're treating a symptom. So if you have an infection and you have a fever, you can treat the fever with Tylenol, but it's not going to do anything for the underlying infection, which is kind of the analogy that they draw with this.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

is that you really have to go in there and allow yourself to feel the old trauma. You don't have to go in and dissect it completely. And this is what people ask me. It's like, well, do I have to know where my trauma comes from? Do I have to talk about it? It's like, no, you don't.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

is that you really have to go in there and allow yourself to feel the old trauma. You don't have to go in and dissect it completely. And this is what people ask me. It's like, well, do I have to know where my trauma comes from? Do I have to talk about it? It's like, no, you don't.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

is that you really have to go in there and allow yourself to feel the old trauma. You don't have to go in and dissect it completely. And this is what people ask me. It's like, well, do I have to know where my trauma comes from? Do I have to talk about it? It's like, no, you don't.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

But you do have to have a sense, like what I was talking to you about before with that sort of the red, deep, tight place in your chest. We do have to come in to bear with that. We do have to feel that. And when we feel that, we can get, connected with the part of us that got the wounding in the first place. And I've got one more thing. I have this acronym that I call SHOULD.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

But you do have to have a sense, like what I was talking to you about before with that sort of the red, deep, tight place in your chest. We do have to come in to bear with that. We do have to feel that. And when we feel that, we can get, connected with the part of us that got the wounding in the first place. And I've got one more thing. I have this acronym that I call SHOULD.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

But you do have to have a sense, like what I was talking to you about before with that sort of the red, deep, tight place in your chest. We do have to come in to bear with that. We do have to feel that. And when we feel that, we can get, connected with the part of us that got the wounding in the first place. And I've got one more thing. I have this acronym that I call SHOULD.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So this is what you should have got when you were younger. So you should have been seen. You should have been heard by your parents. You should have been open to. Your parents should open to you and make it okay to express your needs and to see that their needs are expressed. Should have been understood, loved, and defended. So seen, heard, open to, understood, loved, and defended.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So this is what you should have got when you were younger. So you should have been seen. You should have been heard by your parents. You should have been open to. Your parents should open to you and make it okay to express your needs and to see that their needs are expressed. Should have been understood, loved, and defended. So seen, heard, open to, understood, loved, and defended.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

So this is what you should have got when you were younger. So you should have been seen. You should have been heard by your parents. You should have been open to. Your parents should open to you and make it okay to express your needs and to see that their needs are expressed. Should have been understood, loved, and defended. So seen, heard, open to, understood, loved, and defended.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

This is what you should have got when you were younger. You can give that to yourself now. If you find your alarm, you're actually finding the younger version of yourself. So see them, hear that child, open to them, understand them, love them, defend them.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

This is what you should have got when you were younger. You can give that to yourself now. If you find your alarm, you're actually finding the younger version of yourself. So see them, hear that child, open to them, understand them, love them, defend them.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

This is what you should have got when you were younger. You can give that to yourself now. If you find your alarm, you're actually finding the younger version of yourself. So see them, hear that child, open to them, understand them, love them, defend them.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

If your parents didn't show an interest in knowing you and understanding you, you probably won't have a big interest in knowing and understanding yourself. And then you're so at risk of codependency because you never really got to know who you were. What you did was you got to give other people what you perceived they needed and you probably got pretty good at it too.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

If your parents didn't show an interest in knowing you and understanding you, you probably won't have a big interest in knowing and understanding yourself. And then you're so at risk of codependency because you never really got to know who you were. What you did was you got to give other people what you perceived they needed and you probably got pretty good at it too.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

If your parents didn't show an interest in knowing you and understanding you, you probably won't have a big interest in knowing and understanding yourself. And then you're so at risk of codependency because you never really got to know who you were. What you did was you got to give other people what you perceived they needed and you probably got pretty good at it too.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And then you get rewarded for that.

Modern Wisdom
#951 - Dr Russell Kennedy - How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry

And then you get rewarded for that.