Change the Ingredients: What to Do When Your Life Tastes Like Anxiety

About this episode

The episode discusses how to change your mental diet to improve your life and reduce anxiety.

If you don't like the way your life tastes right now, stop blaming circumstances and start changing your ingredients. It is exactly 9:00 A.M. What have you already fed your mind today? If your morning routine consists of compulsive doomscrolling, breaking news alerts, or a casual complaint ritual with your partner, you aren’t just looking at "content"—you are consuming a high-friction, low-nutrition mental diet that actively programs your mood, your self-worth, and your earning capacity. In t...

People in this episode

Hosts: Jana Shelfer, Jason Shelfer

Topics covered

• anxiety
• mental health
• morning routine
• self-improvement
• mindset

Keywords

• anxiety
• mental diet
• morning routine
• self-worth
• self-improvement

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