Anxiety Rx

When we have trauma as children our nervous system often learns that life is about avoiding pain as opposed to attending to pleasure.

In other words, we adopt an unconscious strategy of chronically seeking survival instead of enjoying our growth.

As we grow up, automatically, unconsciously and reflexively attuning to potential threats became a "default setting" in our mind and body that keeps us trapped in anxiety and alarm.

We must first be aware of this unconscious default setting to pain and begin to make the CONSCIOUS INTENTION to attend and attune to pleasure instead.

In this change in conscious intention towards growth and pleasure, we begin to overwrite the unconscious setting of protection.

Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG: @theanxietymdif you have any questions.

P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.         You can get it by clickinghere

I have had some people question how bad my anxiety was if I could do stand up comedy and work as a physician.

In this episode, my daughter Leandra joins me to share her firsthand account of what I was like back then. Together, we reveal the strategies that have helped us both conquer our anxiety.

This isn't just another podcast, it's a candid and heartwarming father-daughter bonding episode!

The biggest questionI get asked is "How do I heal the ALARM in my system?".

For months I've been working on this anxiety relief program from scratch and it'svery close to being ready.

This program is designed to show you what anxiety truly is and how you can heal from it.

It contains video and audio components to help you heal your anxiety and not just cope with it.

Along with neuroscience based tools to help you overcome anxiety in your mind a specific guided meditation called YOGA NIDRA is included that has been specifically created to help recover from chronic anxiety that is stored deep in your body.

I wanted to give you an overview of this affordable, effective and unique mind body program that I will be releasing on May 8th 2023.

Thank you for listening. You can find me on IG here: @theanxietymdif you have any questions.

P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.  

You can get it by clickinghere

In this podcast, I explore the importance of creating healthy attachments with our parents, even if it's through our own imagination, and how it can help us heal from childhood wounds.

My 89 yo mother is failing and it's taking everything I have to deal with her. I didn't have a healthy attachment to her growing up, nor did I have a healthy attachment with my father.

Listen in as I share my insights and experiences on reparenting ourselves, repairing family relationships, and rebuilding attachments.

Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here:@theanxietymdif you have any questions.

P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.         You can get it by clickinghere

I've never met ANYONE who suffered from chronic anxiety and didn't see themselves as a victim, including and especially ME.

For the most part, anxious people were victims of trauma or unresolved emotional pain and our nervous system was trained to be on defense, which will never allow us to heal from anxiety.

To heal, we must see our victim mentality and go TOWARDS our fears and not retreat from it.

Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here:@theanxietymdif you have any questions.

P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't have to suffer like I did.         You can get it by clickinghere

This episode,is the most practical and emotionally vulnerable episode of the ANXIETY Rx PODCAST so far.

In this episode, I talk about the root cause of anxiety being a separation of your adult self from your child self and the practice I do every morning of listening to Peter Gabriel's "IN YOUR EYES" because the words are about creating a connection with his younger self.

I drill down to the meaning of the lyrics in relation to the art and science of healing your anxiety and alarm so you can understand create your own healing...

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PS. I’m giving away a FREE chapter of my book. Click HERE to download it.

In this episode, I talk about attachment styles and how the core of secure attachment is the ability to trust love.

I discuss how the lack of attachment in my own childhood led to my sense of chronic alarm and the importance of attachment in my own healing from chronic anxiety and alarm, along with how developing a secure attachment to yourself is critical to the healing process.

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PS. I’m giving away a FREE chapter of my book. Click HERE to download it.

In this episode, I discuss how connecting with the younger version of ourselves can help us deal with anxiety or trauma.

Our inner child sends a signal to us when we feel anxious, and we should be grateful for it.

When we show kindness and care to this younger version of ourselves, we can begin to feel better and move away from anxiety.

Lastly, I share a bit about my own experience and encourage you to connect with your inner child.

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PS. I’m giving away a FREE chapter of my book. Click HERE to download it.

In this episode, I talk about how anxiety and difficulty accepting uncertainty are related, which is often caused by traumatic experiences during childhood.

I explain that uncertainty can trigger worry and anxiety in the body.

To overcome anxiety, it is important to become more tolerant of uncertainty by recognizing and accepting it, as well as understanding and addressing the cause of the alarm in the body.

In the healing process, I emphasize the importance of awareness and gratitude.

Thank you for listening and I'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode and how it relates to you. You can DM me directly on IGhere.

Your BIGGEST supporter, [after yourself]

dr. Russ

Resistance is one of these things that rules our lives and we don't even know it.

That's the thing about resistance. Resistance is one of the biggest sabotages, and it's a trick of the ego.

The ego will resist anything that's ever hurt you in the past.

Listen to this episode where I go into detail about resistance and how it's ruling your life.

You can also WATCH this episode on YouTube by clicking here.

You can find my book by click here.

If you have any questions you can DM me directly on IG here.