Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsMeet Wendy SuzukiWhy Wendy Suzuki Is Mentally StrongWhat You’ll Hear on the ShowWhat You’ll Learn About Mental Health and Mental StrengthQuotes From WendyMore About the Podcast

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Meet Wendy Suzuki

Why Wendy Suzuki Is Mentally Strong

What You’ll Hear on the Show

What You’ll Learn About Mental Health and Mental Strength

Quotes From Wendy

More About the Podcast

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OnThe Verywell Mind Podcast, Amy Morin, LCSW, interviews authors, experts, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and other inspirational people about the strategies that help them think, feel, and do their best in life.

Wendy Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University.

She invests much of her time studyingbrain plasticity—how the brain is able to grow and adapt over the lifespan. She is known for her extensive work studying areas of the brain that are critical to our ability to develop and retainlong-term memories.

Her books include “Healthy Brain, Happy Life” and “Good Anxiety.”

It used to be thought that the brain stopped producing new neurons after a certain age. But research like Wendy’s has helped change this idea. She’s shown that the brain can continue to grow and adapt over time.

One of her major areas of research involvesexercise and the impact this has on the brain. That led to her first book. But she’s also conducted a lot of research on anxiety and how we can use it as a way to empower ourselves.

Although she’s an expert in the field, she doesn’t shy away from talking about her own experiences. She shares the strategies that have helped her work throughgriefand how she manages her ownanxiety.

What You Can Do to Cope With Anxiety

How to Harness the Power of Anxiety With Neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki

Anxiety feels uncomfortable. And for the most part, we don’t want to experience it.

But we should have some anxiety. After all, it is meant to keep us safe. Anxiety might warn you of danger or steer you toward better decisions.

Your anxiety alarm bell might be a bit faulty, however. It might ring loudly even when you’re not in any actual danger.

Fortunately, there are steps you can take to manage anxiety in a healthy way. As Wendy says, you can learn to harness it in a way that it becomes more of a benefit, rather than a hindrance.

Wendy Suzuki, PhDAnxiety isn’t the same as deep grief that comes with a death of somebody that you love, but there is pain that comes with anxiety. And I ask myself what wisdom, what gifts could come from that pain?

Wendy Suzuki, PhD

Anxiety isn’t the same as deep grief that comes with a death of somebody that you love, but there is pain that comes with anxiety. And I ask myself what wisdom, what gifts could come from that pain?

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