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Movement is MedicineAuthor: Recharge, LLC
In order to live a healthy life, you have to know what healthy means for you. Movement is Medicine (MiM) Podcast aims to help guide your path to healthy. Recorded at RECHARGE in Howard County MD, MiM integrates physical therapist's clinical expertise with unique fitness focused perspective. Hosted by: Dr. Gene Shirokobrod Dr. Meghan Wieser Dr. Michelle Komrower Language: en-us Genres: Fitness, Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Anxious State
Wednesday, 22 April, 2026
It started with something small. Members setting up their stations before the workout is even introduced. Grabbing equipment. Getting ahead in the warm-up. Looking busy before anything has actually happened. Dr. Gene called it out, and then the conversation went somewhere deeper. Why do people try to control the environment before life even unfolds in front of them? What are they actually running from? And what's the difference between being an anxious person and just feeling anxious in a moment? Dr. Michelle talks about what it's like to have a brain that never stops, a ping pong ball bouncing nonstop, strobe lights flickering, and how she spent years not understanding how other people could just be present. Dr. Gene is the opposite. A dark room, no wall decorations, nothing going on. Dr. Meghan is somewhere in between, possibly inhaling toxic fumes. The crew breaks down how anxiety shows up in the smallest, most invisible behaviors. The need to get ahead. The fear of feeling lost. The urge to have certainty before anything has even started. And why that pattern doesn't stay in the gym. It follows people to work, into parenting, into relationships, into every environment where they feel like the ground might shift. The takeaway isn't "just calm down." The opposite of anxious isn't nothingness. It's presence. And most of us have no idea how to get there because we've never practiced it. Recorded live at Recharge in Howard County, Maryland. www.rechargexfit.com
