Dr. Russell Kennedy

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.

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.

in this sort of short-natured kind of place that doesn't really provide you with any resolution of the alarm. You have to fix the alarm to fix the anxiety. And I think we're in this society where we believe that we can heal everything with cognitive therapy. And that's why I think somatic therapy is so important. Not that you can do one or the other. I think that you need to do both.

in this sort of short-natured kind of place that doesn't really provide you with any resolution of the alarm. You have to fix the alarm to fix the anxiety. And I think we're in this society where we believe that we can heal everything with cognitive therapy. And that's why I think somatic therapy is so important. Not that you can do one or the other. I think that you need to do both.

in this sort of short-natured kind of place that doesn't really provide you with any resolution of the alarm. You have to fix the alarm to fix the anxiety. And I think we're in this society where we believe that we can heal everything with cognitive therapy. And that's why I think somatic therapy is so important. Not that you can do one or the other. I think that you need to do both.

You need to do bottom-up and top-down. And I think in our society, we're so reliant rigid on top down understanding oh if you have the insight as to what happened to you as a child the pieces will just go back together it doesn't work that way in my opinion what way does it work then I think we need both. So we need to allow ourselves to feel that alarm, find it first.

You need to do bottom-up and top-down. And I think in our society, we're so reliant rigid on top down understanding oh if you have the insight as to what happened to you as a child the pieces will just go back together it doesn't work that way in my opinion what way does it work then I think we need both. So we need to allow ourselves to feel that alarm, find it first.

You need to do bottom-up and top-down. And I think in our society, we're so reliant rigid on top down understanding oh if you have the insight as to what happened to you as a child the pieces will just go back together it doesn't work that way in my opinion what way does it work then I think we need both. So we need to allow ourselves to feel that alarm, find it first.

And this is what I do with all my anxiety people is I say, okay, think of something that really troubles you, causes you a lot of anxiety.

And this is what I do with all my anxiety people is I say, okay, think of something that really troubles you, causes you a lot of anxiety.

And this is what I do with all my anxiety people is I say, okay, think of something that really troubles you, causes you a lot of anxiety.

Sure. Okay. So I would get you to pick an event in your life that causes you anxiety. Not the worst event of your life, but something that causes you some anxiety.

Sure. Okay. So I would get you to pick an event in your life that causes you anxiety. Not the worst event of your life, but something that causes you some anxiety.

Sure. Okay. So I would get you to pick an event in your life that causes you anxiety. Not the worst event of your life, but something that causes you some anxiety.

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And you don't have to share it with me, but what I would do is go, okay, see if you can bring that to mind right now. So maybe close your eyes, relax your shoulders, relax your jaw. And just in your mind's eye, see if you can really experience that fear, that anxiety.

And you don't have to share it with me, but what I would do is go, okay, see if you can bring that to mind right now. So maybe close your eyes, relax your shoulders, relax your jaw. And just in your mind's eye, see if you can really experience that fear, that anxiety.

And you don't have to share it with me, but what I would do is go, okay, see if you can bring that to mind right now. So maybe close your eyes, relax your shoulders, relax your jaw. And just in your mind's eye, see if you can really experience that fear, that anxiety.