Stoicism, Anxiety, and and Marcus Aurelius ... Gone Wrong? | EP 333
About this episode
The episode explores the misconceptions surrounding Stoicism and the writings of Marcus Aurelius in relation to anxiety and mental health.
If you're struggling with panic disorder, health anxiety, OCD, GAD, or other anxiety issues you've may have encountered online content that references Stoicism, warrior philosophy, and Marcus Aurelius. The message: master your emotions, be tough, control your fear through discipline and suffering. But that's not what Marcus Aurelius was actually writing about. In this episode, I dig into what Marcus actually wrote in his Meditations—his personal diary that accidentally survived 2,500 years....
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