Dr. Wendy Suzuki

anxieties.

Can you find friends and help talk that through?

Because sometimes your best friends are the best mirrors to show you some of the things, and especially the beautiful things that are on the other side of your anxiety.

Yeah, yeah.

So, you know, I started writing Good Anxiety first because I noticed, this was before the pandemic, how much more anxious the students that I teach were.

That's interesting.

And this was, you know, 2015, 2016.

But then if I was really honest, it wasn't just the students.

It was me.

It was my friends and I, my colleagues.

Everybody was getting more anxious.

go back so much beautiful research on social media, and there were political, we almost forget what was happening in 2015.

So many things that were causing anxiety.

So I set about to write this book, and I wanted to focus on the protective aspect of anxiety.

But something happened in the middle of writing this book that really shifted the way that I looked at it.

And it

caused the book to be the book that it was.

And that was something that was not anxiety, it was true grief.

So in the middle of writing the book, my father passed away.

He had Alzheimer's.