What is up, daddy gang?
It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with call her daddy.
Daddy.
Daddy.
Doctor Julie Smith is a clinical psychologist, online educator, and author of the book why has nobody told me this before?
Today's episode is about anxiety, a feeling we all experience at some point in our lives.
And I'm really excited to speak with you today.
Welcome to call her daddy.
Oh, I'm really happy to be here.
Thank you.
So let's just start with the basics.
How do you define anxiety?
Okay, so, anxiety is that feeling you get when your stress response is switched on.
So all the time, your brain is looking out for signals that you might not be safe or things might not be okay.
And so your brain's job is, you know, well, we kind of think these days our brain's job is to keep us happy.
It's not.
It's to keep us alive.
So your brain is constantly searching for any kind of signs that all is not well.
And its job is to let you know whenever it detects any kind of signs that you might be under threat to kind of gear your body up to move and do something about that really, really quickly.
And anxiety is that feeling that we get when our body is gearing up for action.