588: How to Calm Anxiety and Achieve Peak Performance with Dr. Luana Marques

Dr. Luana Marques discusses how to face anxieties and fears head-on using proven strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) How to stop avoiding and start taming your fears  2) Why anxiety isn’t always bad  3) The TEB cycle for calming your anxious mind  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep588 for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT LUANA —  Dr. Marques is a licensed clinical psychologist in the states of Massachusetts and New York and an expert in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for a wide range of psychiatric disorders.  She received her B.S. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) in 2001, as well as her Masters and Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo in Clinical Psychology in 2005 and 2007, respectively. She completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship in the CBT track at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and was subsequently hired as a post-doctoral fellow in the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinic & Research Unit at MGH. Currently, Dr. Marques is the senior clinical psychologist at the MGH Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders program, as well as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  • Luana’s website: DrLuana.com  — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • Psychology: Yerkes-Dodson Law  •Book: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi  • Book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho  •YouTube Series: “Some Good News”  — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —  • sendinblue. Increase your email open rate with sendinblue.com/awesome.  • Pitney Bowes. Simplify your shipping while saving money. Get a free 30-day trial and 10-lb shipping scale at pb.com/AWESOME.