Managing Anxiety: Three Root Causes To Help You Find Relief with Noelle McWard Aquino
Anxiety is one of the most common emotional struggles today. Whether you have a formal diagnosis or are simply experiencing the symptoms, you are not alone.
In this episode, Dr. Alexandra is joined by anxiety expert, therapist, and author Noelle McWard Aquino to talk about the three distinct root causes Noelle has identified and written about in her book Anxiety Unpacked. Together, they discuss which characteristics each type has and what core needs drive them. And most importantly, they discuss practical tools and strategies to help you find relief and peace, regardless of your anxiety type.
You’ll come away with this conversation with:
- A thorough overview of anxiety, with answers to questions that often come up such as:
-What’s the difference between anxiety and intuition?
-Is it okay if I just avoid the things that make me anxious?
-How am I possibly going to change my behaviour when I feel as anxious as I do?
-Why do we have to deal with anxiety in the first place?
- The three root causes of anxiety, characteristics to identify each type, and strategies to manage each type
- Tips on what to do if you’re struggling with anxiety in your intimate partnership, and what to do if your partner is struggling with anxiety
- Validation on the experience of anxiety and a mindset shift to provide hope that you can find peace and calm
Resources worth mentioning from the episode:
- Learn more about Noelle McWard Aquino
https://noellemcwardaquino.com
- Anxiety Unpacked: Discover Your Type and Recover Your Peace by Noelle McWard Aquino:
- “Your Anxiety Toolkit” on MasterClass: www.masterclass.com/youranxietytoolkit
- Couple Therapy Certification Course from PESI: http://pesi.com/dralexandra
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Mailbag Episode! Trouble in Paradise
Welcome to another summer mailbag episode, in which Dr. Alexandra digs into recent listener questions so that we can all grow, together. Two of the questions today follow a general shape of a question that comes across Dr. Alexandra’s desk quite often. Something like: “Everything’s perfect in my relationship…BUT….” There’s some challenge, incompatibility, or roadblock that feels outside of our control—or, something within *US* that’s holding us back from taking things to the next level, even though everything feels so right—and we can’t get unstuck. Dr. Alexandra speaks to two listeners in this spot, as well as answering a unique question from a listener who is wanting to reclaim a special place for herself and her daughter, a place that holds both “pain and potential,” in her words, in the wake of the end of her marriage. Listen to hear Dr. Alexandra’s tips on how she can reclaim her paradise.
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Previous summer mailbag episodes: Mailbag 1, Mailbag 2
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“My Family is a Mess. Will The Dynamic Ever Change?”
When there’s a struggling person in a family, the system often coalesces around that individual, and while we might imagine these patterns get left behind when kids grow into adults, the dynamic often endures for the long run. Reimagining Love listener Cristina wrote in to Dr. Alexandra from Chicago, asking about how to better handle the challenges of such a situation. She’s the only one in her family who is in therapy, and she is eager to disrupt the dynamic. Cristina wants to stay connected to her sisters, despite the challenges they’ve faced, and her hope is to break longstanding patterns of over-accommodation and resentment while honoring her own needs as well as other family members’. Dr. Alexandra dives into this question with the goal of exploring an empowering therapeutic truth: that when you change your own dance moves, you can transform the entire system. If you’re dealing with something similar, this episode is going to offer you ways forward you may not have experimented yet, that could have the potential to change everything. If you’d like to submit a listener question of your own, you can do so by following the link below.
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