Hello and welcome to my podcast, The Wellness Project with Des. On today’s podcast episode, I speak with Dr. Marcia Martin about the impacts of worrying on your wellbeing.
I’m Desiree, a Mental Health Therapist and Holistic Wellness Coach that is passionate about helping people improve their mental health and live a healthy and fulfilled life. One way I do this is by interviewing experts in the field of mental health and wellness as well as those that share their first hand accounts with their mental health journeys. In this episode, we will hear from Dr. Martin all about worry.
Dr. Marcia Martin is the founder of The Heart Healing Foundation where she works to help people heal the relationship they have with themselves. In this interview, Dr, Martin shares what worrying is, the cost of worry, and how worry negatively impacts our mental health, physical health, and well-being.
Worry serves as a function to protect ourselves but it is not helpful, it is harmful. Being in a constant state of worry can cause chronic physical health problems such as high blood pressure or stroke. Worry also impacts our views of ourselves and the world around us. If we tend to worry, we may be constantly looking for whats wrong, we may always be saving money and live in a scarcity mindset, we may expect things to go wrong and always thinking about the worse case scenario. Dr. Martin talks about the difference between living in a state of worry and consciously participating in your life.
Sharing her first hand account, Dr. Martin explains that she has been battling worry her entire life and explains how her worries trapped her in a cycle of worrying and created even more for her to worry about. She came to realize that the way she was living wasn’t working and that she needed a drastic shift in her mindset. Among sharing her own personal story with worry, Dr. Martin shares tools, strategies, and an exercise that can help you to release your worries. She explains how you can gently shift away from worry to living a calm and peaceful life.
If you are plagued by worry then you don’t want to miss this episode. Worry has stolen enough of your peace of mind. Listen to this conversation and make the changes you need to live the life you want.
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