If you’ve been trying to outthink your anxiety - replaying the same thoughts, searching for the perfect solution, telling yourself “once I figure this out, I’ll be fine” - this episode will land.

Because anxiety doesn’t just live in your mind. It lives in your body. And when you try to solve a body experience with logic, you often end up feeding the spiral instead of calming it.

I’m joined by Dr Jenn Rapkin (naturopathic doctor + somatic practitioner) to unpack the difference between sitting with the story (rumination, what-ifs, worst-case scenarios) and sitting with the sensation (the actual physical feeling that rises, peaks, and passes). We talk about why your thoughts don’t always have your back, why “fixing” can keep anxiety alive, and the simplest way to start working with your body instead of against it.

Dr Jenn Rapkin is a naturopathic doctor and somatic practitioner, and the author of The Feeling Muscle: How Felt Emotion Can Help You Sit With and Outlast Hard Feelings.

Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:59) Anxiety Lives in the Body

(03:22) Sitting With Sensations

(07:53) Culture Trains Emotional Avoidance

(10:09) Why Feelings Set You Free

(14:23) Life Is Meant to Be Hard

(17:32) Acceptance Without Giving Up

(18:56) Midlife Timeline Panic

(21:50) Reframing Time and Possibility

(26:32) Detachment Brings Ease and Joy

(29:49) Social Media Fuels Comparison

(31:00) Presence Over Distraction

(32:58) Kids and Screen Culture

(35:15) Connection Beats Tech

(37:24) Why She Does This Work

(40:52) OCD and Mental Health Talk

(45:47) The Feeling Muscle Book

(48:53) First Steps to Feelings

(51:55) Exposure and Doing Hard Things

(54:36) Advice and Happiness

(56:40) Wrap Up and Support

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