Anxiety Rx

Anxiety Rx

Hosted by: Russell Kennedy

I am an anxious doctor. Or at least I WAS an anxious doctor. After literally decades of suffering from intractable anxiety, and seeing over 50 different types of healers I found my way to heal my anxiety through very...

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126. How Can We Overcome The Fear of Connection In Social Anxiety?

Welcome back! In today’s episode of Anxiety Rx, we’re diving into the real root of social anxiety…and spoiler alert: it’s not just about being shy at parties. Social anxiety is often misunderstood as a surface-level...
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125. Panic Attacks Explained: The Collision of Two Alarms and How to Break Free

Hello everyone! You’ve probably heard me talk about alarm - that raw, uncomfortable sensation in the body that actually drives anxiety. But in this episode, I break it down further into two distinct types: foreground...
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124. Cultivating Faith: Your Secret Weapon Against Anxiety and Worry

Hello everyone! In this episode of the Anxiety Rx podcast, I talk about something we cannot heal anxiety without: faith. Not necessarily religious faith (unless that’s your thing) - I mean the kind of faith that...
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123. Exposing Ninja Worries: Embracing the Unknown to Find Freedom

Welcome back everyone! In this episode, I dive into the sneaky nature of worry—how it masquerades as a helpful strategy when really, it’s just our nervous system trying to avoid the discomfort of uncertainty. Worry...
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122. Unmasking the Ego Dragon: When Worry Pretends to Be Safety

Hey Everyone! In this episode, I pull back the curtain on the real driver of anxiety: the overprotective, fire-breathing ego dragon we forged in childhood. We talk a lot about anxiety being in the mind—but it’s not....
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121. My Story: A Doctor's Personal Journey Through Trauma and Healing

Welcome back! In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of my own anxiety story—from growing up with a father who had schizophrenia, to nearly losing myself during medical school, and finally (after many failed...
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120. The Hidden Power of Healthy Anger: Transforming Immobility into Action

Hey Everyone! In this episode, I dive into something I know far too well—that frozen, stuck, can't-move-no-matter-how-hard-you-try feeling that so often comes with anxiety. It’s not just in your head—it’s in...
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119. Reclaiming Your Power: How Awareness Can Change Your Relationship with Anxiety

Welcome back, everyone! In this episode, I dig into the sneaky link between anxiety and victim mentality—and how we often don’t even realize we’re caught in that loop. If you’ve ever felt stuck in your worries or...
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118. Breaking the Achievement Trap: Finding Fulfillment Beyond Success

Welcome back, everyone! In this episode, I sit down with psychiatrist Dr. Dimitrios Tsatiris to unpack a spicy little tangle many of us know all too well: anxiety and achievement. We dive into how our culture’s...
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117. Can Psychedelics Help Us Confront Anxiety and Trauma?

Hello Everyone! We're kicking off Mental Health Month with a mind-expanding episode of the Anxiety Rx podcast—literally! I sat down with the insightful Julie Hagen to dive into the fascinating world of psychedelics,...
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116. How Can Metabolic Health Transform Your Anxiety and Self-Image?

Hi everyone! In this episode of the Anxiety Rx podcast, I sit down with the awesome Ben Azadi—author of Metabolic Freedom—to chat about something that’s not always on people’s radar when it comes to anxiety:...
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115. Nourish Your Mind: The Surprising Connection Between Food and Mental Health

Welcome back everyone! In this episode of Anxiety Rx Podcast, I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with my friend Dr. Drew Ramsey—he’s a rockstar psychiatrist and the author of Healing the Modern Brain. We dove...
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