Managing Anxiety and Stress

Episode 882: Managing Anxiety and Stress, with Angela Ficken

Managing anxiety and stress is important for business owners. Angela Ficken will show us the best ways to start managing anxiety and stress.

It’s time to shift our focus on managing anxiety and stress because of how it can create an impact on both a personal and professional level. Our guest for today’s episode is Angela Ficken, who is a psychotherapist in Boston, MA. She graduated with a B.A in psychology from Northeastern University and received her Masters in Social Work from Boston College. She began her career as a residence counselor at the OCD Institute at McLean hospital before attending graduate school.

After receiving her MSW, she worked as a senior clinical social worker at McLean Hospital and was a primary therapist for college students at Harvard University before moving to her full-time private practice. She is certified in DBT and CBT and is trained in exposure and response prevention (ERP). Her primary interests are working with young adults who have OCD, eating disorders, and anxiety-related concerns.

What you’ll learn in this episode about managing anxiety and stress:

• What Angela has been working on since her previous appearance on Onward Nation in episode 537
• Why Angela has been focusing on her writing, which has been published through her blog as well as Huffington Post, Parenting.com and other media outlets
• Why managing anxiety and stress is becoming increasingly important today, especially for business owners and entrepreneurs
• Why stress and anxiety aren’t the same thing but very often overlap and tend to go hand-in-hand
• Why Angela developed her stress-management course as a supplement to her business and her writings
• What early success and feedback Angela’s clients have received from her stress-management course
• Why our negative thoughts are often based on incorrect assumptions, and why we often overreact to kernels of truth
• What suggestions and tips Angela has for business owners who are trying to find balance and manage their stressors
• Why small changes to your daily self-care routine can have a profound impact on managing anxiety and stress levels
• Why breaking a big, stressful opportunity into small fragments allows you to better deal with anxiety

Resources:

• Website: www.progresswellness.com
• Email: [email protected]
• Read more about managing anxiety and stress levels with the help of these blogs from Progress Wellness

Additional Resources:

• Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
• Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
• Stephen Woessner’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
• Check out a similar podcast on managing anxiety and stress from our guest, J.D. Graffam