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b"Taming Anxiety Series - Episode 1: Today is a big day here on the podcast, both because we have a fantastic new episode, and because this episode is actually kicking off a series we have been wanting to produce for a long time, called \\u201cTaming Anxiety.\\u201d\\n\\xa0\\nAnxiety is a massive issue in our society. Even before the pandemic, it was on the rise. Now, the situation is even worse. Chances are it has afflicted you or someone you love at some point, on some level: maybe you\\u2019ve received an actual diagnosis, like generalized anxiety disorder, or maybe you\\u2019re prone to symptoms closer to panic, or perhaps you\\u2019re just susceptible to a bit too much garden-variety worrying. Maybe your kids are increasingly anxious. Or maybe, like me, you\\u2019ve got a few different items on the menu\\u2013some low-level professional freakouts here, some panic attacks in elevators (or on live TV) over there\\u2026\\n\\xa0\\nAnyway, the bad news is that anxiety is unlikely to disappear overnight. But the good news is that you can change your relationship to it. Hence this two week series we\\u2019re launching today. We\\u2019ve got two episodes with scientists and one episode with a meditation expert on deck to help you learn to tame your anxiety. And we\\u2019ve even got a free meditation challenge over in the Ten Percent Happier app to help you bring these lessons into your practice.\\n\\xa0\\nBut before we get to that, let me introduce today\\u2019s guest. We\\u2019re kicking things off with a personal story. Sara Bareilles is a fearsome polymath: a singer, songwriter, composer, actor\\u2026 the list goes on. She earned Tony and Grammy Award nominations for the Broadway musical Waitress, she\\u2019s got a new album out called Amidst the Chaos: Live from the Hollywood Bowl, and she stars in the new Tina Fey-produced series Girls5eva, which is streaming right now on Peacock.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nBehind all this artistic and professional success is a meditator who is deliberately open and public about her struggles with anxiety and depression. In this conversation, she talks about: her history of anxiety and depression; the relationship between suffering and art, and whether meditation might defang someone\\u2019s creativity; how she works with anger; her relationship to social media; and we get an intimate glimpse into the back-stories behind some of her hit songs.\\n\\xa0\\nThis is the first episode in our new \\u201cTaming Anxiety\\u201d series, and there will be an accompanying meditation challenge over in the Ten Percent Happier app. It\\u2019s also called \\u201cTaming Anxiety,\\u201d and it launches next week, on Monday, June 21st. The idea here is that you will be able to use the challenge to integrate everything you\\u2019ve learned in the podcast series into your neurons.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nJoin the Taming Anxiety Challenge by downloading the Ten Percent Happier app: https://10percenthappier.app.link/install. You should be prompted to join the Challenge after registering your account. If you've already downloaded the app, just open it up or visit this link to join: https://10percenthappier.app.link/TamingAnxietyChallenge.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nFull Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/sara-bareilles-355\\n\\nSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info."