The actress, who has previously spoken candidly about her mental health<\/a>, addressed her approach to managing anxiety while answering fan questions in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, Jan 21.<\/p>\n After answering questions about her workout regimen, acting, and her favorite memory of fashion designer Valentino Garavani, who died on Jan. 19 at his home<\/a> in Rome, Italy, at the age of 93, Paltrow answered a fan who asked “How do you manage anxiety?”<\/p>\n The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!<\/a><\/p>\n Gwyneth Paltrow\/Instagram<\/p>\n Gwyneth Paltrow answers questions about managing anxiety<\/p>\n The Goop<\/a> founder said, “I can’t really avoid anxiety, but I try to temper it with remembering things I am grateful for, breathing deeply, going for a walk, and shouting at the bushes (it helps) and being good to myself.”<\/p>\n She addressed her mental health again when she was asked how she avoids “overfunctioning and burnout.”<\/p>\n “I have avoided neither,” she said. “I’m over functioned and burnt out, but I’m trying to get a little bit better this year at that and really prioritizing sleep and boundaries around working and not working,\u00a0but I have some work to do.”<\/p>\n Gwyneth Paltrow\/Instagram<\/p>\n Gwyneth Paltrow gives advice on mental health<\/p>\n Paltrow said in a November 2025 episode of her the goop podcast<\/a> that she believes she has “a bit of ADD<\/a> and I can really sort of get pulled in lots of directions. I would love to try to not do that so much and feel more grounded throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n Noting that she could get a bad work email and \u201creally take it like it\u2019s a slap in the face,” the Marty Supreme<\/a> star said that she believes being in the spotlight has affected her nervous system.<\/p>\n “I’ve lived a very intense life in the public eye for a really, really long time,” said Paltrow. “And so I think whenever we’re at the mercy of people’s opinions and all the energy behind the opinions \u2014 I’m very sensitive, as most of us are \u2014 so I feel that and it kind of frays my nervous system.”<\/p>\n Dia Dipasupil\/WireImage<\/p>\n Gwyneth Paltrow attends A24’s “Marty Supreme” New York Premiere on December 16, 2025<\/p>\n “I think also my hormonal phase of life, I have a lot of anxiety for the very first time in my life, which is just a symptom of hormonal changes,” continued Paltrow. “I think it’s an estrogen dominance thing. It makes you really anxious … So part of it is physiological, part of it is psychological, part of it’s emotional and part of it’s public life.”<\/p>\n Paltrow said she is working on her mental health with the help of the therapists, one of whom is a nervous system specialist.<\/p>\n She also said she gets “healing from my family, from my kids<\/a> and my husband<\/a>.”<\/p>\n If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.<\/p>\n![\"Gwyneth](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/323d4ec1374e419f0b8efb4ea4d3b02e.jpeg\"\/)
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