Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

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My mother did her best to love and take care of my brother and me, but she had her own issue with chronic anxiety. Russell Kennedy, MD is a physician, neuroscientist, certified yoga and meditation teacher, and a professional stand-up comedian. this interview today is so revolutionary, it's forever changed the way I think about my anxiety and my relationship to it. All anxiety is separation anxiety, separation from the self initially which gradually magnifies into separation from what is not the self. I was still being triggered daily but without the regression and need to remove myself from the situation.

This book is a welcome departure from the trove of others I've read that seem to be full of anecdotes of healing or recovery but never quite zero in on the "how" I could take and apply in my own life. Dr Russell Kennedy is a medical doctor, neuroscientist, and someone who suffered with crippling anxiety for over 30 years.Given how prevalent anxiety is now across society, I think this is a profoundly important conversation. My dad has always lovingly helped me with my own anxiety and I have learned more about relieving it from him than from any other means bar none. He understood that existing therapies focused only on the mind would never get to the root of the problem—at best, they could help manage symptoms, but they’d never truly heal anxiety. Russell Kennedy, MD + Anxiety/Neuroscience Expert on Instagram: "In my book ANXIETY RX I talk extensively about the need to slowly learn how to release and abandon thinking of the mind by redirecting your conscious energy into feeling in the body.

Initially, I was excited to hear an “alternative” perspective on anxiety as a mental health professional who leads an anxiety coping skills group for college students.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.