306 - Living with Anxiety and Making Bold Moves with Dr. Luana Marques
306 - Living with Anxiety and Making Bold Moves with Dr. Luana Marques
Dr Luana Marques shares her story of learning about her anxiety and her methodology to make bold moves even when fear and anxiety are present.
Listeners, we are back this week with Dr. Luana Marques
Dr. Luana is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as Past-President of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). Dr. Luana’s newest book, Bold Move, A 3-Step Plan to Transform Anxiety into Power, will be available in May 2023.
During our conversation we talked about:
02:05 - Her heritage and coming to the US
02:51 - “I could be anything here”
07:14 - Studying psychology
07:41 - “Whatever is easy in your brain, that’s what you do”
09:40 - Anxiety
10:55 - “The stigma is very much alive”
13:41 - “There’s beauty in vulnerability”
15:42 - Learning to show our vulnerability
17:37 - Doing exposure therapy while recording her book
18:41 - Catastrophizing
20:58 - Her relationship with anxiety
23:30 - “The anxiety is a symptom, what’s getting us stuck is avoidance”
29:09 - The signs of anxiety
32:55 - “Our brains create narratives so that we run away from discomfort”
36:16 - Writing her book
38:15 - Being bold is not being fearless
39:51 - “The world is getting more anxious”
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