
Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD
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Harvard-trained psychologist For ambious professionals stuck in anxiety & repetitive protection patterns. Creator of ART (Anxiety Relief Transformation).
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Joe Rogan spent 3 hours with James Nestor learning that most people breathe wrong every minute of every day. But, nobody talks about the scariest part: Your breath can teach your body to panic. Shallow breathing tells your nervous system: “Something is wrong.” Here are 6 breathing shifts that can lower anxiety in minutes: 👇 1. What Nestor told Rogan stopped me cold:
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A Stanford psychiatrist says modern anxiety is not caused by danger. It's caused by tiny habits that teach your brain to panic when nothing is actually wrong. You do them every day. And you call them normal. 6 normal habits quietly teaching your nervous system to panic:▼▼▼ 1/ Reaching for your phone the moment you feel uncomfortable.
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A BYU metabolic scientist spent 20 years studying why belly fat is impossible to lose. His finding: it's not about calories. It's about your HPA axis — and most people have NEVER heard of it. Here's what it is, why it's storing belly fat, and 6 ways to calm it down:👇
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Your jaw locks. Throat tightens. Stomach drops. That’s not “overthinking.” That’s your body hitting freeze before your mind has a single thought. If I wanted to calm my nervous system without medication, here are 5 things I’d do every day: 1. Stop explaining.
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How to drop your CORTISOL by 43% (backed by 300+ studies) 7 proven ways: 1. EFT tapping.
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3. Stop the fight-or-flight response through breath-- in seconds. Long exhales increase respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) and vagal calming. Your entire body relaxes, and visual clarity is restored. This often increases HRV and shifts autonomic balance away from the fight-or-flight response.
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4. Draw or doodle often and randomly. When we externalize our feelings by putting them on paper, we reduce cognitive load and downshift limbic reactivity. Drawing engages visuomotor networks and sensory-motor integration and can help you tolerate uncomfortable emotions. Research shows that it reduces amygdala activation. When you can name the feeling and express it, you've gotten it out of your head.
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Your phone is pulling your brain’s smoke alarm all day. The amygdala. Every text, ping, and scroll tells your body: something is unsafe. That’s anxiety. Here are 7 ways to stop training your body to panic at normal life: 1. Stop using the phone as emotional anesthesia
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Step 2: Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) This isn't meditation, it's something even more powerful. • Lie down • Body scan • Long exhales • Let go without sleeping It's like a dopamine reserve refill station. 10 minutes of NSDR can increase dopamine by up to 65%.
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Most of your life was given to you, not earned. That’s the part we never want to look at. The most honest kind of gratitude isn’t “I deserve this.” It’s “I was given a life millions will never get.” If your life is mostly a gift, not a reward—how are you using this precious gift?
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Bruce McEwen is the neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer hiding in plain sight. At Rockefeller, he called it “allostatic load”: the wear and tear on your brain and body you never notice. Here are 7 “normal” daily habits that quietly wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system: 🧵 1. Replay conversations in your head.
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Step 1: Stop Seeking Most people trapped in anxiety and stress are desperately searching for solutions. But Krishnamurti found that seeking itself creates tension and anxiety. The more you chase peace of mind, the more it eludes you. The first step is to stop all seeking and simply observe.
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Step 2: Embrace the Paradox Don't try to eliminate anxiety. Instead, lean into what he called "the sympathetic antipathy"—being simultaneously attracted to and repelled by life's possibilities. This tension, he found, is where transformation happens.
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