Overcoming Stress And Anxiety - Dr Julie Smith - #507

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Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Dr. Julie Smith. She's a clinical psychologist, online educator, and an author. Bad days will come, stress and burnout and feeling down is always a potential threat. So it's vital that you understand the right tools to recognize this, deal with it, and bring yourself back to a balanced mindset. Expect to learn whether depression is actually caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, and what most people misunderstand about anxiety, the most important things to avoid when you're feeling down, how a bad morning can be turned around, how to improve from a place of growth, not a place of fear, and much more. Don't forget that you might be listening but not subscribed, and it is the best way that you can support the show. It also makes me very happy, and it will mean that you will never miss an episode when they're uploaded. So just go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and press the subscribe button. A thank you. In other news, this episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. We all need help at some point in our lives, whether it's because of stress at work or home or loneliness, it can be invaluable to know that there's someone professionally trained who can help us get through whatever we're facing. Over two million people have taken charge of their mental health with BetterHelp's online service. It removes all of the hassle and awkwardness that can be involved in finding a therapist and gives you some essential simplified steps instead. There are a broad range of experts available categorized by their speciality or combination of specialities like addiction, social anxiety or relationships. You'll get timely and thoughtful responses from your counselor. Plus, you can schedule weekly video or phone sessions, so you don't even have to leave the house. It is the quickest, cheapest, most convenient way to start doing therapy. And you can get 10% off your first month if you head to betterhelp.com/modernwisdom. It's a free quiz. Do the quiz. See what they can do for you. Have a look at all of the options. betterhelp.com/modernwisdom. In other other news, this episode is brought to you by 8 Sleep. Good Sleep is an absolute game changer and the 8 Sleep pod is the ultimate sleep machine. It is way, way too hot at the moment. And if you have tried to cool yourself down by blowing a fan at your face from the side of the bed, you will realize just how poor that is at actually cooling you. The pod is the only sleep technology that dynamically cools and heats each side of the bed to maintain optimal sleeping temperature for what your body needs. With the pod, you can start sleeping as cool as 55 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The result is that clinical data shows 8 Sleep users experience up to 19% increases in recovery, up to 32% improvement in sleep quality and up to a 34% increase in more deep sleep. Even better, 8 Sleep recently launched the next generation of the pod. The new pod 3 enables more accurate sleep and health tracking with double the amount of senses and delivers you the best sleep experience that you can get. Go to 8sleep.com/modernwisdom to start sleeping cool this summer and save $150 or 150 pounds on the pod. 8 Sleep currently ships within the USA, Canada, the UK, selected countries in the EU and Australia. That's 8sleep, E-I-G-H-T, sleep.com/modernwisdom.
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