Coronavirus Anxiety and Your Ancient Brain: 10 Skills to Manage Anxiety when the News is Scary

Anxiety about Coronavirus can feel intense and unrelenting, especially when the news and our feeds are nonstop and frightening. But you can learn skills to manage your fears, soothe you anxiety and take good care of your brain. In this video I teach how news about coronavirus triggers the fight, flight, freeze response, how that impacts your ancient brain, and 10 practical steps to manage that anxiety.

Coronavirus anxiety is pretty intense right now, but there are some things you can do about it, learn to take control of your news habits, solve physical problems, and take reasonable precautions. All of this can help ease coronavirus anxiety.


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