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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

Because that's the subconscious mind is what's running the show in the first place. So if you get to the root of the problem, you don't have to worry anymore because you've actually solved the root of the problem, which is this unresolved alarm, which is the younger version of you that didn't get the attention and connection and repair that they should have.

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

Perfect. Yeah. I think that, and what I usually use in this scenario is combat veterans. So combat veterans that go through the same firefight, the ones that will show up with PTSD are the ones that had the childhood trauma most of the time. So it's almost like the seed is set when you're younger.

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

Perfect. Yeah. I think that, and what I usually use in this scenario is combat veterans. So combat veterans that go through the same firefight, the ones that will show up with PTSD are the ones that had the childhood trauma most of the time. So it's almost like the seed is set when you're younger.

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

Perfect. Yeah. I think that, and what I usually use in this scenario is combat veterans. So combat veterans that go through the same firefight, the ones that will show up with PTSD are the ones that had the childhood trauma most of the time. So it's almost like the seed is set when you're younger.

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

If you're younger and you have repair, if you had a stable childhood, when you go through that breakup, you're unlikely to really completely lose it. Or it's going to be time limited. You're going to go through a really difficult time for two weeks or a month or whatever, rather than...

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

If you're younger and you have repair, if you had a stable childhood, when you go through that breakup, you're unlikely to really completely lose it. Or it's going to be time limited. You're going to go through a really difficult time for two weeks or a month or whatever, rather than...

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

If you're younger and you have repair, if you had a stable childhood, when you go through that breakup, you're unlikely to really completely lose it. Or it's going to be time limited. You're going to go through a really difficult time for two weeks or a month or whatever, rather than...

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

If you did have that track in your system from old unresolved wounds, because I don't want to make everything into trauma because it's not. But if you had that pre-existing kind of discrepancy in your nervous system, you're much more likely to take things harder and you're much more likely to worry longer and worry more intensely than those that had that sort of balance in their childhood.

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

If you did have that track in your system from old unresolved wounds, because I don't want to make everything into trauma because it's not. But if you had that pre-existing kind of discrepancy in your nervous system, you're much more likely to take things harder and you're much more likely to worry longer and worry more intensely than those that had that sort of balance in their childhood.

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

If you did have that track in your system from old unresolved wounds, because I don't want to make everything into trauma because it's not. But if you had that pre-existing kind of discrepancy in your nervous system, you're much more likely to take things harder and you're much more likely to worry longer and worry more intensely than those that had that sort of balance in their childhood.

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

But I don't want to make everything into childhood trauma because it's not, you know, it's just, but it's a huge feature in chronic anxiety.

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

But I don't want to make everything into childhood trauma because it's not, you know, it's just, but it's a huge feature in chronic anxiety.

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

But I don't want to make everything into childhood trauma because it's not, you know, it's just, but it's a huge feature in chronic anxiety.

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

Yeah, I think everybody. I think we are not, as Jordan Peterson says, we're not transparent to ourselves. We have severe blind spots. That's why we need therapists.

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

Yeah, I think everybody. I think we are not, as Jordan Peterson says, we're not transparent to ourselves. We have severe blind spots. That's why we need therapists.

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

Yeah, I think everybody. I think we are not, as Jordan Peterson says, we're not transparent to ourselves. We have severe blind spots. That's why we need therapists.

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

I heard you talk about this too, and that you can do all the meditations and the breath works and all that kind of thing, but if you don't have somebody else there to kind of say, hey, this is kind of a thought, be aware of fleeting thoughts. This is kind of a thought that comes up a lot, and it's kind of your subconscious giving you a little clue.

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

I heard you talk about this too, and that you can do all the meditations and the breath works and all that kind of thing, but if you don't have somebody else there to kind of say, hey, this is kind of a thought, be aware of fleeting thoughts. This is kind of a thought that comes up a lot, and it's kind of your subconscious giving you a little clue.

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

I heard you talk about this too, and that you can do all the meditations and the breath works and all that kind of thing, but if you don't have somebody else there to kind of say, hey, this is kind of a thought, be aware of fleeting thoughts. This is kind of a thought that comes up a lot, and it's kind of your subconscious giving you a little clue.

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

But I do believe a lot of quote-unquote anxiety is unresolved grief. Unresolved grief is huge, actually, for anxiety. And it just gets stuck in your body, and it just never really gets processed because every time we go into that feeling of anxiety, or more correctly, alarm, we shoot up into our heads and start to worry because it works, and it works.