255: What Actually Helps When You're Stuck in Worry

About this episode

The episode discusses effective strategies to manage and reduce worry.

Worry is an understandable response when you’re not sure how something you care about is going to turn out. But worry can become self-perpetuating, eating up your mental bandwidth and creating unnecessary tension over things you can’t control. In this episode Joel and I share some of the best-tested approaches for freeing your mind from the trap of worry. For more daily practices to manage stress and worry all year, here’s the link to my latest book that Joel and I discussed: Your Daily Reset . Get full access to Think Act Be with Seth Gillihan at thinkactbe.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Seth J. Gillihan

Guest: Joel

Topics covered

• worry
• mental health
• stress management
• self-improvement
• mindfulness

Keywords

• worry
• stress
• mental bandwidth
• self-perpetuating
• daily practices

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Your Daily Reset

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