Gwyneth Paltrow shares anxiety tips, from gratitude to shouting at bushes

Gwyneth Paltrow manages anxiety by remembering gratitude, deep breathing, walking, and "shouting at the bushes". Photo / Getty Images

Gwyneth Paltrow says “shouting at the bushes” helps with anxiety.

The 53-year-old actress and Goop founder has admitted while she “can’t really avoid” feeling anxious, she has her own tactics for trying to manage those emotions.

In an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Instagram, she wrote: “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.”

A different follower asked the star how she avoids “overfunctioning and burnout”, and she gave another candid answer.

Paltrow responded: “I have avoided neither.

“I’m over-functioned and burnt out, but I’m trying to get a little bit better this year at that and really prioritising sleep and boundaries around working and not working, but I have some work to do.”

In November 2025, the Marvel star opened up on feeling like she’s “pulled in lots of directions” and how even just a bad work email can be “a slap in the face”.

Speaking on the Goop podcast, she said: “I’ve lived a very intense life in the public eye for a really, really long time.

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“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.”

Paltrow also pointed to the way her changing hormones are having an impact.

She explained: “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.

“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.”