We know that avoiding anxiety fuels it and that facing it increases healing. What are the ways we subtly avoid facing anxiety and what can we do about it?
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I write a ton on anxiety. And when I write I usually include 700 words or more. Well, I want to include you busy readers as well. So I'm going to post small clips of thoughts/skills/techniques that I believe can be helpful in overcoming anxiety…
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Anxiety makes a bad boss. Another way anxiety steps outside of its boundaries as the protector is by grabbing the wheel of your life from you and acting as if it's Mr. T (the boss). We all have several emotions to pick from at any given moment. Anxiety, when it becomes toxic, knocks you over the head with a bottle and overthrows your mind…
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As a therapist, I frequently work with adults who are struggling to cope with the ashes of childhood sexual, physical or emotional betrayal. A lot of times, from a parent. One of the more challenging aspects of this work is aiding in untwisting the knots parents have tied in their children's lives through abuse…
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I always wish I could supplant my own experience as an anxiety overcomer into my patient’s lives. Take a needle, extract these hard-earned experiences from my head and inject them into the brains and hearts of my suffering clients...viola! There are two problems with this I can think of…
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Our minds love to project us into a catastrophic future filled with doom and terror. This part of our makeup can't help but flash images of certainty in front of us.
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This morning while driving to see a client, I was listening to Max Lucado’s book Anxious For Nothing: Finding Calm In A Chaotic World on CD, when he said (and I’m paraphrasing) “Anxiety is unavoidable, but being imprisoned by it is optional.” Profound thought indeed.
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I’m feeling my arms right now. I turned 40 last month and I’m still here. Despite the thousands of times I thought I was dying of a heart attack, suffocating or some other bizarre event like driving off the road because of intrusive thoughts, I’m still kickin’ and screamin.’
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