Quick Fixes for Stress and Anxiety That Actually Work (Kind Of)

Brad Stulberg
4 min readJan 18

Whether it’s the “physiological sigh” popularized by podcaster Andrew Huberman or the New York Times advising people to “plunge your face into a bowl with ice water for 15 to 30 seconds,” quick and concrete tactics for managing stress and anxiety are all over the internet. And the truth is, they work.

Brad Stulberg

Bestselling author of The Practice of Groundedness (https://buff.ly/3vAnErK). Co-Creator of The Growth Equation. Coach to executives, entrepreneurs, and MDs.