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I'm your host, Elise Hu. We all have different ways of feeling and managing anxiety. For me,

my anxiety shows up in irritability, and generally, I just want it to go away.

I'm not alone. A lot of us think of anxiety as something to fix or work to get rid of. But in his

24 talk, clinical psychologist David Rosemaryne asks us to consider the positive role anxiety

can play in our lives.

Instead of being our worst enemy, he shares actionable ways we can turn anxiety into a trusted

ally. That's right. It's coming up.

So I vividly remember my first anxiety attack.

It's kind of like I feel right now.

Woo! Is that hot in here?

It's hot in here.

This wave of fear crashed over me, and my heart started to pound.

My breathing got ahead of me and out of control.

My face felt hot.

It's hot in here, right?

It's hot.

And I got doused in this really uncomfortable cold sweat.

It was a life-changing moment because I made a decision right there and then

to dedicate my career to ridding our world of this feeling anxiety.

So that was more than two decades ago.

Work in progress. I became a clinical psychologist, I became a professor,

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