Welcome back to mood with foreign Elizabeth. I'm Lauren Elizabeth. And today for our current

mood combo, I am going to be joined by Ellen Voora MD. She is an acclaimed holistic psychiatrist,

and she just released her new book, The Anatomy of Anxiety. It's a practical and informative

guide that fully explains the origins of anxiety and offers tactical advice on how we can heal

and grow from it. It's such a timely topic given the stressors of our modern world, and we have

such an amazing conversation. She is so sweet and so kind. And I love her approach to anxiety.

I love just how she really breaks it down. She's so clear, and she's really going to give us

some incredibly useful insight into what anxiety really is and how we can deal with it. It honestly

was a mood booster for me this week, but we'll get into that. First, why don't we do best mood and

we're smooth of the week? My best mood this week was just feeling okay and allowing myself to feel

okay. I think it's so hard to be in a place where you're actually happy and fine, and you've

experienced so much anxiety and depression and all of these things in your life. So when you do

feel okay, you're very confused. And it's taken me a long time to learn to be okay with being okay

and be okay with not being okay. And it's so amazing when you can find like these little moments

of joy and just like really relish in them. I literally was just kind of like in such a good

mood like best mood, just so excited, just so happy because I felt like I wasn't going to let

anxiety just get in the way and ruin it when there's things right in front of me that are great.

And I'm not going to lie kind of like I just said in the intro. It really helped talking to Ellen

on the current mood combo because it really helped me realize and think to myself. You guys know

that I've really related to this like logical learning about anxiety and being able to name it

and understand it so that when it kind of comes in and happens, I have a better understanding of

how to deal with it. And so I feel as though there were moments where I wasn't feeling a hundred

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