I'm Dr. Adriana Jarvis Twitchell

I help people
master anxiety
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Latest Episodes
Feeling overwhelmed when you think about the future? This episode offers a practical two-question exercise you can use anytime the future feels overwhelming. Using two real coaching examples, you’ll learn a simple but powerful way to change how your brain evaluates demands vs. resources.
You already have what it takes to meet what’s coming. In this episode, we explore why the desire for stability is natural, but also why humans are biologically and psychologically built to adapt. You’ll learn how your brain is designed to handle uncertainty, loss, and transformation — even when it doesn’t feel like it. You’ll also hear why emotions exist (and why they’re different from rigid reflexes), how the brain rewires itself after injury, and why resisting change often causes more suffering than the change itself.
Many people with anxiety get stuck in a victim mindset — a way of seeing life where outside forces determine how things are. In this episode, we explore why that mindset fuels anxiety and how a shift toward feeling powerful can help you move out of threat mode. Learn how small, intentional acts done from an approach mindset can raise your baseline happiness and help you exit anxiety-driven patterns. This episode invites you to rethink power — and to recognize that you are already shaping other people’s stories, whether you realize it or not.
Featured Episodes
If your anxiety feels like it’s running the show, your dopamine budget might be maxed out. Our brains evolved to thrive on scarcity, but in today’s world of endless stimulation, we’re overspending dopamine like credit — leaving us anxious, restless, and unable to feel true joy. In this episode, we bring together insights from Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman, Dr. Anna Lembke, and Dr. Andrew Huberman to show you how to balance your dopamine system and reclaim calm.
Feeling stressed? What if the fastest way out was through your eyes? In this episode, I’ll teach you a quick 10-second exercise that uses your vision to flip bad stress into good stress. You’ll learn why when anxiety hits, your world shrinks -- your eyes go into tunnel vision and your mind locks into achieving awareness, obsessing over control and what you don’t have. But there’s another mode available. Awakened awareness—the mental counterpart to panoramic vision—that helps you regain perspective, spark insight, and stop anxiety from running the show. Discover how to toggle between these two modes so you can stay focused without getting stuck, and calm without losing your drive.
Ever felt like you're faking it—despite all your preparation, skill, and effort? In this episode, we take a thoughtful look at those moments of self-doubt when
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