Are You Treating Your Anxiety As An Alert Or A Constant Passenger w/ Neuropsychotherapist Britt Frank

About this episode

Britt Frank discusses the nature of anxiety and how to better manage it through body awareness and therapy.

We have made anxiety a bad term. But anxiety is a normal response of the body to a worry or concern or perceived threat. Your anxiety in and of itself isn’t doing anything wrong. We just seem to be responding inappropriately. Britt Frank is a licensed neuropsychotherapist and trauma expert who is trained in IFS (Internal Family Systems) and SE (Somatic Experiencing). She is a speaker and an award-winning adjunct instructor at the University of Kansas where she’s taught classes on ethics, addiction, and clinical social work. She has a book, The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia To Find Your Path Forward. I brought her to us to discuss her research on anxiety and body based feeling vs thought based therapy. Britt ultimately points to anxiety as a cue from your body. Think of it as a dashboard light in your car saying something is not quite right. Like the “check engine” light. But instead of giving the light attention, our culture has primarily normalized anxiety, as it has many pathologies, and decided to just live with the check engine light on. I think what you will hear is some paradigm shifting information that will change how you view your anxiety and get you paying…

People in this episode

Host: Kevin Miller

Guest: Britt Frank

Topics covered

• anxiety
• mental health
• neuropsychotherapy
• body awareness
• therapy
• trauma

Keywords

• anxiety
• neuropsychotherapy
• body responses
• mental state
• trauma
• IFS
• Somatic Experiencing

Sponsors

Shopify, ShipStation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Kansas

Books & works: The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia To Find Your Path Forward

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