HIDDEN BRAIN
Episode: “A Better Way to Worry”
“Our stock response when we hear a blaring alarm is to do one of two things,” host Shankar Vedantam says. “Turn it off or run in the opposite direction.” author Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Vedantam explores what happens when we engage with our internal alarms with curiosity. Dennis-Tiwary offers a third response to a blaring alarm in your mind: Anxiety doesn’t need to be soothed. Instead, it can be honored. The paradox of anxiety, Dennis-Tiwary says, is that when you unpack the information anxiety presents, and take wise action based on that information, anxiety dissipates. – KR
