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306 - Living with Anxiety and Making Bold Moves with Dr. Luana Marques

306 - Living with Anxiety and Making Bold Moves with Dr. Luana Marques

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Dr Luana Marques shares her story of learning about her anxiety and her methodology to make bold moves even when fear and anxiety are present.

Listeners, we are back this week with Dr. Luana Marques

Dr. Luana is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Community Psychiatry PRIDE at Massachusetts General Hospital and serves as Past-President of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). Dr. Luana’s newest book, Bold Move, A 3-Step Plan to Transform Anxiety into Power, will be available in May 2023.

During our conversation we talked about:

  • 02:05 - Her heritage and coming to the US

  • 02:51 - “I could be anything here”

  • 07:14 - Studying psychology

  • 07:41 - “Whatever is easy in your brain, that’s what you do”

  • 09:40 - Anxiety

  • 10:55 - “The stigma is very much alive”

  • 13:41 - “There’s beauty in vulnerability”

  • 15:42 - Learning to show our vulnerability

  • 17:37 - Doing exposure therapy while recording her book

  • 18:41 - Catastrophizing

  • 20:58 - Her relationship with anxiety

  • 23:30 - “The anxiety is a symptom, what’s getting us stuck is avoidance”

  • 29:09 - The signs of anxiety

  • 32:55 - “Our brains create narratives so that we run away from discomfort”

  • 36:16 - Writing her book

  • 38:15 - Being bold is not being fearless

  • 39:51 - “The world is getting more anxious”

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