Why We Feel So Much Anxiety and Angst
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Anxiety, stress, and angst are inevitable as we traverse the wilderness of parenthood. So how do we make sense of it and how do we tame the tension? Caitlin is joined by John Delony, a mental health expert who offers guidance on relationships, anxiety, and wellness. Over the past 20 years, John learned through research, personal experiences, and working with clients that there are six daily choices people have to make to create a non-anxious life. In this episode, John shares his discoveries with Caitlin. Check out his book Building a Non-Anxious Life.
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| 0:00.0 | I actually think our bodies are pretty smart. We didn't all just get ADHD overnight. |
| 0:07.9 | We didn't all just get super anxious or super depressed overnight. I think we've created a world |
| 0:13.0 | that our bodies can't live in. In reality, with expectations, with this husband and wife |
| 0:18.4 | rolls shifting underneath our feet and watching our parents age and our kids be born. |
| 0:22.5 | We just don't have a roadmap for the new terrain we find ourselves in. |
| 0:27.4 | And I think that anxiety is simply a smoke alarm. |
| 0:29.9 | It's just an alarm system letting us know, hey, we're not okay. |
| 0:33.3 | And how would I tell a single mom with two kids whose whole life is a blender without the top on it? |
| 0:39.2 | Here's a way that's going to help your day be a little bit more peaceful. |
| 0:47.6 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:48.7 | Welcome back to big time adulting. |
| 0:50.3 | I have an awesome guest here with me today. |
| 0:53.3 | If you are not following him already on the gram, you might be after today. |
| 0:58.3 | Dr. John Deloney. |
| 0:59.9 | And we're going to get deep on some stuff about anxiety, mental health, feeling better, |
| 1:05.8 | being your best self, because this is really what John is all about. |
| 1:09.7 | And he's got 20 years in this space helping people |
| 1:13.7 | feel better about themselves. So John, welcome to the podcast. Well, thank you so much. I told you |
| 1:20.4 | off here. I'm super starstruck. Oh my God. Can we tell everybody how we met? Yes. I was sitting in my |
| 1:26.2 | house and I, your Instagrams just kept coming up and I was laughing so |
| 1:30.2 | hard. My wife came out and goes, what's so funny? And my wife like will walk out of the room when a |
| 1:35.4 | Will Ferrell movie comes up. She doesn't think any of that's funny. And so I hand her to the phone and |
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