Jennifer Aniston’s pal Reese Witherspoon says she uses a hypnotist to help manage her ‘high anxiety’

On Wednesday, Reese Witherspoon revealed how much hypnosis has changed her life, just as the romance between her *Morning Show* castmate Jennifer Aniston and her hypnotist boyfriend Jim Curtis heats up.

“I’m a high-anxiety person,” the 49-year-old Oscar winner confessed on the *Las Culturistas* podcast. “I used to have bad panic attacks, like crying, and I tried meditation [but] it’s hard for me to listen. Yeah, I also have like some ADD stuff, so I can’t listen to stuff for very long.”

“Honestly, this sounds so crazy, but I worked with a hypnotist who did no medicine. I took medicine. Sometimes I’d have to take Ativan to calm down and then it would make me feel like a zombie, and then I wasn’t performing at the level I wanted to and I wasn’t as funny.”

Reese found a practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), who helped her realize that she could achieve the same calming effect with hypnosis as she did with Ativan—without the sleepiness.

“The cornerstone of that work is understanding that you’re gonna perform at the same level whether you’re stressed about it or not stressed about it,” Witherspoon explained. “So decide to take the stress out.”

The *Hello Sunshine* co-founder learned exercises like talking to herself after completing a task and giving herself a moment to let in positive feedback. “That actually changed my whole life. And I want people to know anxiety is real,” Reese (born Laura Jeanne) noted.

“I see girls going through it or guys going through it and they post videos, and I wanna hug them. I want [it] makes me wanna cry because it’s very real, and you’re not alone, and you can calm yourself down. There’s tools to calm yourself down.”

Meanwhile, the 56-year-old *Friends* alum Jennifer Aniston told *Travel + Leisure* in April that she used hypnosis to help overcome her fear of flying, hinting that this was how she originally met the 49-year-old transformational coach, Jim Curtis.

“They do everything together, they are always together, and if they have to be away from each other, they are on the phone all the time. They are so hot and heavy, it’s crazy,” a source told the *Daily Mail* on August 22.

“The amazing thing is that they click really well because they have the same interests like meditation, yoga, therapy, and dogs.”

Jim previously dated *The Real Housewives of New York City* alum Bethenny Frankel and divorced his ex-wife Rachel Napolitano soon after she welcomed their teenage son Aidan.

“I can’t keep a girlfriend because I get bored,” Curtis admitted in his 2017 book *The Stimulati Experience*. “I wish I had a better relationship with my son, but he lives with his mother [in New York] most of the time, and he’s pi**ed at me.”

Jennifer was previously married to *Wanderlust* co-star Justin Theroux between 2015 and 2017, and two-time Oscar winner Brad Pitt between 2000 and 2005.

On September 27, Witherspoon will celebrate the 13th birthday of her son Tennessee Toth from her 11-year marriage to ex-Quibi head of content acquisitions and talent Jim Toth, which ended in 2023.

The *You’re Cordially Invited* producer-star also has two other children: daughter Ava Phillippe, 26, and son Deacon Phillippe, 21, from her seven-year marriage to *Cruel Intentions* leading man Ryan Phillippe, which ended in 2007.

On Wednesday, Apple Studios officially renewed *The Morning Show* for a fifth season. Reese reportedly earned $2 million per episode to executive produce and reprise her role as former UBA news anchor Bradley Jackson in Charlotte Stoudt’s 10-episode fourth season, which premiered Wednesday on Apple TV+.

The hit newsroom drama is a loose adaptation of Brian Stelter’s 2013 book *Top of the Morning*, and season four is set two years after the UBA-NBN merger.

Witherspoon’s other upcoming projects include producing Apple TV+’s *Legally Blonde* prequel series *Elle* as well as producing and starring in the third season of HBO’s *Big Little Lies*.
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