Oprah and Mel Robbins on How to Calm Anxiety
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What is the main topic of this episode with Oprah and Mel Robbins?
Hi, everybody. Thanks for joining me on the Oprah podcast. I'm back with Mel Robbins. Oprah Winfrey. And we're talking about something that I know impacts so many of you, millions actually, and some people very close to me as well, anxiety.
Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. Mel Robbins is a force.
Her latest book, The Let Them Theory, spent 15 weeks on top of the New York Times bestseller list and is being translated into 51 languages. Mel B dropped in jams and I'm like... Her podcast is followed by millions and often lands in the number one spot. When I started my own podcast, Mel Robbins was one of the first people I called. You're never stuck. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever stuck. Mel is back to talk about what feels like the overwhelming emotion of our times, anxiety. I want you to never say I have anxiety, ever.
How does Mel Robbins define anxiety?
We will unpack what anxiety actually is. All anxiety is separation anxiety.
answer your questions what tools does the next generation need to cope with anxiety
How do you let go of your anxiety and still keep your edge?
And hopefully give you the tools to calm some of those runaway thoughts.
I am a woman who has struggled profoundly with anxiety, and because I didn't get control of it, I actually made my daughter's anxiety worse.
As Mel says, how to stay connected to your capability.
And the decision that changed my life was the decision to get out of bed that morning.
So many of you may already know Mel's personal story, but in case anybody listening or watching doesn't know, you struggled with anxiety in college. Oh my gosh, yes. And law school.
And how did it start showing up for you? Oh, Oprah, I think I came out of the womb as a worried and anxious child. Like I had a nervous stomach. I couldn't go to sleep over camp. And for college and law school, I just was in a chronic state of feeling stressed out. I was not in my body a lot of the time. And we're gonna talk a lot about what anxiety is and what it isn't. And I didn't understand what anxiety was in college and law school. Okay. And so you start to get afraid of it.
Yeah.
What tools does Mel Robbins recommend for managing anxiety?
And then you dread it. And then it gets worse. Okay. You said we're going to talk about what is it and what isn't it. So anxiety is just an alarm system in your body. That's all that it is. Anxiety rises. It's just like stress. So if you have something stressful going on at work today, you're going to feel, what would you feel if you had a stressful day at work?
Um, I would feel maybe a little tension. I would feel a little sense of anxiousness, like gotta get it done, gotta get it done.
Uh-huh. Yeah. And that's a sign that you're mentally well.
Yeah.
Because you have a lot of things going on. Right. And that stress is basically the same thing as anxiety. Anxiety is what happens when your body goes from a calm resting state. Yeah. into a tense and on edge fight or flight state. And there's actually a lot of medical research about this. You go from this part of your brain, which is the prefrontal cortex, to the amygdala part of the brain.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode with Oprah and Mel Robbins?
1:01–2:00
2
How does Mel Robbins define anxiety?
2:00–3:24
3
What tools does Mel Robbins recommend for managing anxiety?
3:24–7:22
4
How can changing your perspective transform anxiety into excitement?
7:22–15:39
5
What lifestyle changes can help reduce anxiety for the next generation?
15:39–20:24
6
How does Mel Robbins suggest men address mental health and anxiety?
20:24–47:15
Speakers
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