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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreOur 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreWhile anxiety can obviously be caused by genetics, the complexity in overcoming anxiety speaks to it having a myriad of causes.
Read MoreI’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.’
Read MoreProcess of illimination works great when diagnosing cars. Going through a checklist of what is not the problem can be a great way to nail the problem done. Let’s start off with what anxiety is not.
Read MoreToxic anxiety (the kind that poisons your life) is frightening. It’s caused by a mess of things (biology, shame, fear, trauma etc.). It’s rude, cruel and very untactful.
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