[Rebroadcast] How to Learn to Love Anxiety

#324: Trying harder to concentrate can leave you tense, frustrated, and just as distracted. Kevin and Sharif explore a different approach: strengthening the meaning behind your work. Drawing on Aquinas and connections Kevin proposes with modern neuroscience, they explain why inte ...  Show more

#323: Two people can do equally excellent work—and be changed by it in completely different ways. What makes the difference? Kevin and Sharif explore how bringing love into a task transforms more than its outcome: it shapes the person doing it. Drawing on Aquinas’s account of pru ...  Show more

On today's episode, I dive into the part of the brain that initiates this freeze, fight, and flight response, the amygdala. This ancient part of the brain is emotional and can create fearful associations to certain situations. I dive into the reasoning behind this as well as s ...

Today's episode is all about a question I received from Damion: "can you go over some basic knowledge about anxiety for someone who knows so little?" I dive into the big truths about anxiety so that you have a better understanding of yourself and how to rise above it. We explo ...

On this podcast episode, I talk about how someone can easily misinterpret an anxiety sensation as being a real physical illness. We can build strong neuronal connections in our brains between the sensation and the fear of it. There is a way where you can break this thought pat ...