Understanding Anxiety

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Understanding Anxiety

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talks

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Meditation

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Join Glen Alex, LCSW, award-winning author, and host of the award-winning The Glen Alex Show podcast as she unpacks the complexities of anxiety. Enhance your understanding of anxiety and lay the groundwork for a healthier, more joyful life. Glen Alex is on a mission to help you be joyful, connected, confident, and complete—the life experience she calls Wellth, which is health + other riches. Please stay tuned for upcoming videos with Glen sharing her favorite tips for managing and successfully navigating through anxiety. Please note: This content is intended for educational and supportive purposes, and should not replace professional medical or psychological care.

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Meet your Teacher

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Meet your Teacher

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Transcript

Hi, I'm Glenn Alex, Licensed clinical social worker and author, Here with your Wealth Moment on anxiety. Wealth is W-E-L-L-T-H. It is the life experience of being joyful, Connected, Confident, And complete, Which is health plus other riches. And I want to focus this wealth moment on anxiety because many of my clients are struggling with it. My conceptualization of anxiety is, Anxiety is future-oriented gloom or doom thinking. Anxiety tricks you into believing you must have all the answers, You must fix all the problems, You must do so now, And guarantee it'll work out. That's a lot. It's unrealistic. We humans don't have the capacity to know everything. We don't have the ability to fix everything. And we have zero control over the future. So while anxiety has you focused on things you have no control over, It is a setup for failure. Because it robs you of the power and control you do have over your life experience. And that is only in the here and now, In the present moment. Anxiety is also a setup for failure because while focusing on things you have no control over, The things you do have control over. Though undone and unattended too. Also, Anxiety can produce in real time. Excessive worry and overthinking. Panic. Shortness of breath, Nervous energy, Difficulty sleeping. So my work with clients is to bring them back to the present moment as much as possible, So they can avail themselves of that power and control they do have over their life experience, While addressing issues. So it's not about ignoring what's happening, And it's not about understanding potentially what could happen. It's about. Dealing with it in real time. Not staying worried in the future with what ifing and overthinking and thinking and thinking and thinking because if thinking alone were enough problem would be fixed. In coming Wealth Moments, We will talk more about tips and tools to enhance your present moment awareness and experience, And to restore control over your own life experience. Thank you for joining this Wealth Moment and stay tuned for the next one.