Summary: BSL Insider Exclusive: Dr. Tamar Chansky author of "Freeing Yourself From Anxiety" joins us on the show today. Your energy is one of the most valuable currencies that you've got. It allows you to mentally perform, physically move, emotionally thrive and spiritually be. Energy operates on every single fundamental level of life and within the living forces of nature. Remember those days when you are alert and feel inspired to take on life? How amazing is it to move through the day from that place of vitality? You feel unstoppable. You feel great. You feel happy. Let me not remind you of those other days, when you wake up totally drained. Not a good feeling. Nothing seems to make those days function better, not more sleep and not even healthier food. There's a reason for this... The reason is stress, or its other twin companions--worry, anxiety, and tension. Nothing devoids you of your vital life force called "energy" like the stressors of anxiety and worry. It will completely and utterly rob you of all you need to dominate your life on mental, physical, emotional and spiritual levels. That's why the fastest way to inject more "living" into your life can come from simply eliminating these stressors. Almost automatically, you can feel the energy of your beingness come to life allowing you to create for anything you choose to have in your life or for other's lives. Enter the anxiety-killer herself, Dr. Tamar Chansky. Our BSL Insider: Dr. Chansky has devoted her professional life to "making the mind a safer place to live" for children, teenagers and adults. This has been her focus since the late 1980s when, in graduate school, she studied cognitive-behavior therapy for anxiety. Since 1995, she has been working as a specialist in anxiety disorders for all ages. In 1999, she founded the Children's Center for OCD and Anxiety in Plymouth Meeting, PA; having broadened the focus to include adults with anxiety, the Center was renamed, The Children's and Adult Center for OCD and Anxiety. Dr. Chansky has appeared on local and national television shows including: CN8 Your Morning, Inside Edition, Action News, TLC: Surviving Motherhood, and The Jane Pauley Show. She has frequently been interviewed on radio programs including NPR's: Voices in the Family with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, with Dr. Alex Barzvi on Sirius XM Doctor Radio, with Lisa Belkin on Sirius Radio, Dr. Laura on Oprah Radio. Dr. Chansky has also been quoted in a wide variety of popular magazines and newspapers including: The New York Times, US News and World Report, Parents Magazine, Parenting, Redbook, Child, and Working Mother. In 2004, she founded an educational website, worrywisekids.org to provide information about anxiety disorders for parents and teachers. She has blogged on Huffington Post on resilience and optimism for adults and her work has been translated into French, Turkish, Chinese and Korean. She's worked with kids and adults. As you will hear, the duality of working with both the young and the mature has allowed Tamar to create the most effective solutions in dealing with anxiety with revolutionary simplicity. Her methods have worked across the board. She knows the game Story plays in creating all the negative consequences of your life and how to change that. Listen in below to get an understanding of the dark side of Story to better understand its power in creating all the experiences of your life. In This Episode, You Will Learn: Why Dr. Chansky says to just think of anxiety as a Story What you really need to do in the moment that anxiety and worry grips your mind If it's really okay to compartmentalize anything regarding your emotions or feelings Mark Twain's brilliant quote on anxiety that will instantly shed light on the issue What the purpose of worry and anxiety really is and why An interesting perspective regarding your vulnerabilities & your worries The power of questioning for dissolving anxiety Dr.
