Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-06-07
Chris Williamson & Dr Russell Kennedy: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #951
How To Fix Your Brain’s Addiction To Anxiety & Worry - Dr Russell Kennedy - #951
Dr. Russell Kennedy is a neuroscientist specializing in anxiety treatment, physician, and an author. Why is anxiety so common now?
Russell Kennedy recommended How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett, and discussed The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Body Keeps the Score
Discussed“So the short version is you had a trauma that's too much for you to bear as a child. It got pushed into your unconscious mind and because the body is a representation of the unconscious mind, the body keeps the score and that trauma gets stored in your body”
Where to get it
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How Emotions Are Made
Recommended“Then Lisa Felman Barrett wrote this this great book called How Emotions Are Made. And in that book, she says, "The more emotion words you know, the more emotionally literate you are and the more balanced your your your psyche is."”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Anxiety Rx
“So, that new book came out in September 17th. So, Anxiety RX um sold over 100,000 copies so far, which is pretty happy about that. um highest rated anxiety book on Amazon.com as far as I know when I checked about a month ago.”