Anxiety Explained: Fight, Flight, Freeze—and How to Reset Your System
Anxiety isn’t just “worrying too much”—it’s the nervous system on high alert, constantly scanning for threats both real and imagined. Eddie Reece and Bill Courtright break down how the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems shape our experience of fear, stress, and calm. From everyday triggers like a messy dishwasher to overwhelming rumination that feels like “drawing ghosts,” listeners learn how the body’s survival instinct drives anxious thoughts and behaviors. Eddie and Bill explore practical nervous system regulation techniques—like conscious breathing, sound exhalation, and muscle…
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