114: Why Nothing You’ve Tried for Anxiety and Stress Is Actually Working with Dr. Dave Rabin

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You can be sleeping, exercising, taking supplements, trying to meditate, cutting back on caffeine, doing all the “right” things, and still feel like your body is bracing for something you cannot name. That is the part so many stress conversations miss, because anxiety is not always something you can mindset your way out of when your nervous system has learned that safety is not the default. We dive deeper into this in Rooted in Wellness with Dr. Dave Rabin, and this conversation will change the way you understand stress, anxiety, trauma, and why everything you have tried has only ever scratched the surface of what actually needs to heal. Dr. Dave Rabin is a board certified psychiatrist and neuroscientist with over 12 years of post-college medical training specializing in chronic stress, trauma, and treatment resistant mental illness, one of the few psychiatrists in the United States trained in both ketamine and MDMA assisted therapy, and the co-founder of Apollo Neuroscience. With decades spent working with the most treatment resistant patients in psychiatry, the people who had tried everything and still could not find relief, he has dedicated his entire career to finding what actually works when nothing else does. What's Discussed: (5:04) The four pillars of self trust and why restoring a sense of agency is the foundation of all healing. (13:53) Why looking at your phone first thing in the morning is one of the most dysregulating things you can do to your nervous system. (17:35) Why anxiety is not a disorder but a signal and what happens when we treat it like one. (22:11) How chronic stress diverts up to 80% of your blood flow away from every system in your body responsible for healing. (34:03) Why perfectionism is a biological trap and what it is actually doing to your nervous system. (39:20) How trauma changes your gene expression and what epigenetics tells us about the possibility of healing. (1:03:59) Why the source of all healing comes from within and how psychedelic assisted therapy is proving it. (1:23:54