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Laguna Blanca Hosts Dr. Wendy Suzuki at Free Community Talk
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Laguna Blanca School presents an evening with world-renowned neuroscientist and author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life and Good Anxiety Dr. Wendy Suzuki who will speak about Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion—Anxiety. The free community talk takes place on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 6PM at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in Fleischmann Auditorium.
So many of us are dealing with heightened levels of anxiety after living through two years of the pandemic. What if we could work with our anxiety rather than against it and use it to be more productive, more optimistic, more creative, and ultimately more resilient?
Our special speaker Dr. Wendy Suzuki has found a way to unlock the potential of anxiety to be a benefit instead of a drawback. She reveals that anxiety is essential for survival and a key component of our ability to live optimally. Drawing from Suzuki’s personal experience with anxiety and cutting-edge neuroscience research, GOOD ANXIETY: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion shows how simple but powerful shifts in mindset and tangible, practical strategies can help to transform social anxiety, fear of performance, or fear of public speaking into positive and empowering assets.
Dr. Suzuki suggests that listening to our anxieties from a place of curiosity, and without fear, can help us onto a path that leads to joy. Her accessible and comprehensive approach offers hands-on, evidenced-based tools to harness the power of anxiety and cultivate calm, confidence, and compassion.
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“[Suzuki] guides nervous listeners in how to actually honor their panic, and channel it into greater self-understanding.”
―New York Times (for audiobook)
“The book contains surveys and strategies to help people assess and befriend their anxiety. It’s a powerful reminder that many of the human body’s adaptations can be used for good or ill — and that people can flip their responses to what can feel like inevitable feelings of anxiety and stress.”
— The Washington Post
“Suzuki draws on decades of neuroscience, including her own research, and leavens her learning with a little personal storytelling to create a practical, science-backed guidebook for those seeking such a transformation.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Suzuki details the biological underpinnings of anxiety and helps us reframe our perspective on it, so we feel empowered instead of helpless.”
―CNN
“An essential guide, with tips on coping mechanisms as well as training techniques for communication and productivity for anyone who finds themselves suffering from anxiety, stress, or a case of the ‘what-ifs.’”
—Fortune
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ABOUT DR. WENDY SUZUKI
Dr. Suzuki is a Professor of Neural Science and Psychology in the Center for Neural Science at New York University and is a celebrated international authority on neuroplasticity. She was recently named one of the ten women changing the way we see the world by Good Housekeeping and regularly serves as a sought-after expert for publications including The Wall Street Journal, Shape, and Health. Her TED talk has more than 31 million views on Facebook and was the second most viewed TED talk of 2018.
She received her undergraduate degree in physiology and human anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 studying with Prof. Marion C. Diamond, a leader in the field of brain plasticity. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from U.C. San Diego in 1993 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health before accepting her faculty position at New York University in 1998. Her major research interest continues to be brain plasticity. She is best known for her extensive work studying areas in the brain critical for our ability to form and retain new long-term memories. More recently, her work has focused on understanding how aerobic exercise can be used to improve learning, memory and higher cognitive abilities in humans. Wendy is passionate about teaching, exercise, and supporting and enhancing mental health in our schools and communities.
Dr. Suzuki has appeared on and been featured in: CBS This Morning, Dr. Oz, National Geographic, Tamron Hall, Parade, Sirius XM, Maria Shriver’s Move for Minds, The Moth, The Dana Foundation, World Health Organization, The Big Think, Live Science, Mindbodygreen, HuffPost, Yahoo News, and several others.
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