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- Gwyneth Paltrow did a AMA (Ask Me Anything) on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, Jan. 21
- One of the questions she answered was about managing anxiety
- She also addressed how she avoids “overfunctioning and burnout”
Gwyneth Paltrow is offering her best advice for managing anxiety.
The actress, who has previously spoken candidly about her mental health, addressed her approach to managing anxiety while answering fan questions in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday, Jan 21.
After answering questions about her workout regimen, acting, and her favorite memory of fashion designer Valentino Garavani, who died on Jan. 19 at his home in Rome, Italy, at the age of 93, Paltrow answered a fan who asked “How do you manage anxiety?”
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The Goop founder said, “I can’t really avoid anxiety, but I try to temper it with remembering things I am grateful for, breathing deeply, going for a walk, and shouting at the bushes (it helps) and being good to myself.”
She addressed her mental health again when she was asked how she avoids “overfunctioning and burnout.”
“I have avoided neither,” she said. “I’m over functioned and burnt out, but I’m trying to get a little bit better this year at that and really prioritizing sleep and boundaries around working and not working, but I have some work to do.”
Paltrow said in a November 2025 episode of her the goop podcast that she believes she has “a bit of ADD and I can really sort of get pulled in lots of directions. I would love to try to not do that so much and feel more grounded throughout the day.”
Noting that she could get a bad work email and “really take it like it’s a slap in the face,” the Marty Supreme star said that she believes being in the spotlight has affected her nervous system.
“I’ve lived a very intense life in the public eye for a really, really long time,” said Paltrow. “And so I think whenever we’re at the mercy of people’s opinions and all the energy behind the opinions — I’m very sensitive, as most of us are — so I feel that and it kind of frays my nervous system.”
“I think also my hormonal phase of life, I have a lot of anxiety for the very first time in my life, which is just a symptom of hormonal changes,” continued Paltrow. “I think it’s an estrogen dominance thing. It makes you really anxious … So part of it is physiological, part of it is psychological, part of it’s emotional and part of it’s public life.”
Paltrow said she is working on her mental health with the help of the therapists, one of whom is a nervous system specialist.
She also said she gets “healing from my family, from my kids and my husband.”
If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.
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