Episode 48 - How To Break The Anxiety Habit And Find Calm w/ Maureen Fearon
Anxiety Is Not Your Only Option
“If our mind and body can do anxiety in a second, do you know what? The mind and body can do calm in a second as well. But you just have to practise it. Know the steps of it, repeat it, and you can actually get yourself back into calm in a very, very quick space of time. It’s doable. You’ve got a choice.”
Anxiety doesn’t just appear, it often becomes something we practise, repeat, and then call “me”. We go straight at that idea with a question that sounds almost rude until you sit with it: would you like to not do anxious?
We unpack what we’ve both been seeing more and more, from children carrying heavy worry to adults who feel like their mind never stops. Together, we explore how the language of anxiety has become everyday talk, and why that can quietly lock it into your identity. We also step into the tricky truth that anxiety can bring “benefits” such as attention, lowered responsibility, or an escape route at work, and how that keeps people stuck in cause and effect thinking and the victim state.
