{"id":167449,"date":"2025-09-25T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167449\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:36:14","slug":"why-anxiety-is-a-superpower-life-kit-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167449\/","title":{"rendered":"Why anxiety is a superpower : Life Kit : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758767774_813_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3377x1900+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F9e%2Fba%2Fb63072c445ef9461acdfd72c7f34%2F32816fde-a0e4-49ec-9467-1ad0402eb48b.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"An illustration of five faces in profile with a gradient of emotions. The leftmost face is the most anxious, depicted in a purple-red shade with fire bursting out of their head and exclamation points ringing out in their head. Each following face becomes more calm and fades to a medium blue color.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As bad as it feels, anxiety is essential, says psychotherapist Britt Frank, author of\u00a0The Science of Stuck.\u00a0It can be a helpful warning signal that something is off, or even dangerous. But when anxiety hits, it&#8217;s hard to remember its importance. In this episode, Frank explains what we can do to feel more centered when we anxiety makes us feel overwhelmed \u2014 so we can listen to what it&#8217;s telling us. This episode was originally published on May 23, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Instagram:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nprlifekit\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@nprlifekit<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/life-kit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our newsletter here.<\/a><br \/>Have an episode idea or feedback you want to share? Email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/23\/nx-s1-5545859\/mailto:lifekit@npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lifekit@npr.org<\/a><br \/>Support the show and listen to it sponsor-free by signing up for Life Kit+ at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/lifekit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org\/lifekit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As bad as it feels, anxiety is essential, says psychotherapist Britt Frank, author of\u00a0The Science of Stuck.\u00a0It can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-167449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}