Why You Can’t “Think” Your Way Out of Anxiety (It’s Your Nervous System) | Dr. Nicole LePera

I get an email and I feel all of a sudden this clutching in my chest, this tightness in my belly. I'm like having literally a panic attack about sending out an email that says no. Why am I feeling like this? I continue to hear, I can't help it, but I'm still stuck repeating patterns. So we come to believe this is just who I am, how I am, and how I will always be.

And so the reality, thankfully we know in science, that we can change. Dr. Nicole Le Pair is a holistic psychologist trained at Cornell University. And in number one, New York Times bestselling author whose work has reshaped the global conversation around healing and personal responsibility. Our environments have changed, we've gained more resources or access to them, but our nervous systems are still reflecting danger that it believes is present.

In moments where we had to learn how to create safety, security, belonging, where many of us had to modify or show up in particular ways and performance-driven ways, and all of these models left out. the physical body. You could be eating the healthiest foods, but if you're doing so in a body that's on edge, that's bracing for that next shoe to drop, then that's not going to create the safety that your body needs to repair. What are the practices, what are the tools? Because I get the concept, but like, how the hell do I do that?

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