Dr. Wendy Suzuki
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915 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Jan
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And she said, you know, I use my anxiety for all the different arguments that the other side is going to put up against me or all the things the judge might say. that becomes my to-do list. Like, what if the judge says that? What if the other side brings this up, that up? And I turn that into actionable items. And so because I do that on a systematic basis, and I've gotten really good at that,
I plug all the holes in my case. And I think you could apply that to anything, anything in your life. And I love it because it is an act of turning the energy of just worrying, oh, what if this, what if this, into an action. That is really at the core of this book. Can you turn that inner turmoil into an action that is positive. And this is one example that's easy to understand how I do that.
Even if you get to the top three things on your list and do something about that, there is a satisfaction that comes from that. And you can feel that anxiety coming down with every checkmark that you do.
Well, then we go back to what are the chronic effects of anxiety.
Yeah, right. And they stay in this negative emotional state. They stay in the state of pure worry, no action. And that is difficult to maintain. And it starts to interfere.
It's exhausting.
Yes, it is. Draining.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, so I think that, I think about anxiety now and all that worry and anger and all these other things that come with anxiety, I really think of it as kind of the wind in my sails. That is the little fire under my backside that gets me to do things, gets me excited, gets me to go towards the fear and get through it because I know there's something good on the other side.
And without it, I mean, that is, I think there's certain perhaps times in your life if you are
uh retired and and you know aren't in this situation where you're dealing with the world that that could be great that is the you know the happy-go-lucky no no worries but for most of us i think it is very beneficial to learn how to take that fear that is depleting us it is exhausting us it's making us look older and turn that into something that makes you feel better about yourself.
It decreases the overall stress in your life. And frankly, it is more practical to say, look, I'm not gonna be happy-go-lucky all the time. Nobody's happy-go-lucky all the time. But I'm gonna use that bad stuff that is inevitably going to come in and I am going to learn from it. I'm going to use it to my best advantage.
And one thing we haven't talked about yet, I'm going to learn about myself through thinking about my anxiety rather than just trying to say, oh, I hate it. Go away. What does it tell us about ourselves? And like for me, my social anxiety told me how much I love and I appreciate people. deep friendships because I didn't have them because I was too scared to start them. Really?
I was so shy and it kept me isolated. And there's something wrong about that. I mean, that contributed to the isolation in the first place. And so the realization, and because part of the time it's like, I'm a lone wolf. I like being alone. You know, it's okay. But actually the truth was, I love being with people. it motivates me.
So I had to get through that shyness to get that joy on the other side.
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