Overview

• Speaking on the Sept. 17 Las Culturistas episode, Witherspoon called herself a high-anxiety person and recalled past severe, performance-driven panic attacks.
• She said meditation was difficult for her and that Ativan left her feeling "like a zombie," while noting she is not a doctor and urging people to use medication if they need it.
• Witherspoon began working with a hypnotist using neurolinguistic programming at age 34 and credits it with removing the anxiety she felt between starting and finishing tasks.
• She outlined an exercise in which she imagines talking to herself after completing a show to internalize a calm, successful outcome, along with letting compliments sink in.
• Coverage cited the Association for NLP’s description of NLP as offering accessible tools to support wellbeing, and her remarks coincided with The Morning Show’s season 4 debut on Apple TV+.