If 90% of the population struggles with anxiety, what are we missing in our approach to understanding and treating it?
This week, Dr. Wendy Suzuki joins us to talk about why anxiety just might be helpful in our growth. She said, “When you adopt strategies that harness the neural networks of anxiety, you open the door to activating your brain-body at an even deeper, more meaningful level. Instead of feeling at the mercy of anxiety, we can take charge of it in concrete ways. Anxiety becomes a tool to supercharge our brains and bodies in ways that will resound in every dimension of our lives.”
Dr. Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University. She received her undergraduate degree in physiology and human anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 studying with Prof. Marion C. Diamond, a leader in the field of brain plasticity. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from U.C. San Diego in 1993 and completed her doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health before accepting her faculty position at New York University in 1998. In addition, she is a bestselling author and has graced TED stages across the globe.
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