Featured Interview
Raising Good Humans with Dr. Aliza Pressman
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It was an absolute pleasure to speak with Dr. Aliza Pressman on her Raising Good Humans podcast - Parts 1 & 2! We spoke about why anxiety is a necessary and potentially helpful part of being human, even though it feels bad, and how we can cultivate antifragility in our kids and ourselves.
Listen here.
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Featured Tip
How to Turn Anxiety to Your Advantage
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ICYMI, I had a great time writing this piece for BBC Future. I not only lay out why anxiety isn't a malfunction, or something to be feared and avoided, but why it's an essential, uncomfortable feeling that we antifragile humans are absolutely equipped to leverage as an advantage. How? When we treat anxiety as information and preparation, it becomes one of our greatest tools to navigate uncertainty and make our hopes and dreams into reality.
Read here.
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Upcoming Event
National Association of Independent Schools
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I'm thrilled to be speaking at the 2023 NAIS Annual Conference in - you got it - Las Vegas next week. I'll have the chance to talk with a community of educators who are passionate about how to support kids' learning - and that includes emotional learning. I'll be asking them to rethink everything they thought they knew about anxiety - and consider a different approach.
Learn more and buy tickets here.
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Researcher, author, & co-founder of Wise Therapeutics, Tracy’s mission is to understand the fundamental role of emotions in mental health, to challenge current views about anxiety, and to transform breakthrough science into accessible mobile games to improve mental health. More about Tracy here.
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