Joanne Lee SmithChronic pain and symptoms recovery Nurse / Coach

Stop Doing What Makes You Feel Worse

17 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of her YouTube video, Joanne Lee Smith urges listeners to evaluate every activity by asking whether it makes them feel safer, calmer, more confident, and more able to live their lives, versus whether it heightens anxiety, obsession, pressure, or worry. She advises that if an activity makes you feel worse, you should simply stop doing it, emphasizing that it is not necessary to persist in harmful habits. Smith also shares that she has explored many different trainings and disciplines, but only continues with those that truly resonate and support her well‑being, illustrating the importance of selective commitment based on personal emotional response.

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Aim to do the things that you know you can ask yourself, does this make me feel safer, calmer, more confident, more trust, more able to live my life? Or is this activity that I'm doing making me more anxious, more obsessed and focused on physical More desperate, more pressure, more worrying. Because if it's making you feel worse, then please don't do it. Just don't do it. You don't have to do anything like that because it's not necessary. There is just like so many ways that you're never going to run out of ideas and you will have the best ideas. I mean, I've done training in lots of different kinds of things. But not all of them have— not all of them I've thought, oh, I want to continue with that one.