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Every book Russell Kennedy recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Russell Kennedy appears on, in one place — not just one.
Russell Kennedy is a Canadian cross-country skier who competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics. During podcast appearances, Russell Kennedy discussed several books related to psychology, neuroscience, and emotional health. He talked about Bessel van der Kolk's book The Body Keeps the Score to explain how childhood trauma and unexpressed stress get stored physically in the unconscious mind and body, and to support the idea that the mind is represented by the body. Russell Kennedy also referenced Lisa Feldman Barrett's book How Emotions Are Made, noting that knowing more emotion words leads to greater emotional literacy and a more balanced psyche, while also illustrating how men and women lack words for emotions. Additionally, he discussed Joseph LeDoux's book Anxious while talking about the limits of neuroscience in clinical psychotherapy, and mentioned Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté's book Hold on to Your Kids in the context of developmental psychology and the concept that all anxiety is separation anxiety.
Books recommended by Russell Kennedy
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The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an influential exploration of how trauma physically impacts the brain and body, offering pathways to healing through modern science and therapy.
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”
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How Emotions Are Made
How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett is a revolutionary neuroscience book exploring how the brain constructs emotions rather than merely reacting to them.
Discussed“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."”
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Anxious
Anxious by Joseph LeDoux is an influential neuroscience book that explores the biological mechanisms of fear, anxiety, and how the human brain processes perceived threats.
Discussed“even Joseph Ledoux who's a you know a Pioneer in Neuroscience hardcore Neuroscience he wrote this book called anxious that I love that I've read five times and still don't understand”
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Hold on to your kids
Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté is a parenting book that warns against the dangers of peer orientation, arguing that children must remain closely bonded to their parents and adult caregivers rather than their peers to ensure healthy psychological development.
Discussed“I've done a lot of work in developmental psychology with uh Gordon neufeld who wrote a book called uh hold on to your kids with gabarmate and he says that all anxiety is separation anxiety”
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Books Russell Kennedy wrote
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Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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.”
“and then my book is on Amazon it's called anxietyrx it's uh it's funny you know this book uh took two years to sell 10 000 copies”
“you know the five second rule and the high five habit you know those are books that I've listened to over the last year and and I love them I I really I think that they're really something that that helps me”
“you know the five second rule and the high five habit you know those are books that I've listened to over the last year and and I love them I I really I think that they're really something that that helps me”