Ellen Vora

And this is Live Purely with Elizabeth, featuring candid conversations about how to thrive on your wellness journey.

Today's guest is Dr. Ellen Vora, a holistic psychiatrist and the best-selling author of The Anatomy of Anxiety.

Ellen takes a refreshingly different approach to mental health, looking beyond symptoms to understand how everything from blood sugar and sleep to gut health, alcohol, technology, and modern life can affect the way we feel.

In this conversation, we explore the differences between what Ellen calls false anxiety and true anxiety.

And others, it is very difficult and can take years for the side effects of the withdrawals to go away.

Now, I learned a lot more about benzos from the book called Anatomy of Anxiety by Dr. Ellen Vora.

I love her book because it really talks about the imbalances in the body that can cause anxiety.

So it's very much right in line with my functional medicine approach that, you know, anxiety isn't all in the head.

And then it becomes this long term solution.

So I have many clients who have been taking these for years, even though the product label says meant to be taken short term, like a month at the most.

Now, I am not a doctor, but what I have learned, especially from Dr. Ellen Vora and the Anatomy of Anxiety, is that you really want a very slow taper.

So I give my clients a weaned down protocol for coming off anxiety.