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Living Through Thoughts

Living Through Thoughts

Have you ever had the sensation of living life through a plate glass window, like there's a thick barrier between the full, rich, sensory experience of LIFE and, well, *you*?

Or, have you ever caught yourself telling the SAME story about the SAME situation and realized nothing is changing, that you're stuck in a soundbite you just keep rewinding and playing over and over again?…

Emotions & Moods & Personalities

Emotions & Moods & Personalities

Happy New Year! To kick off 2021, we're going to talk about one of my favorite things: feelings. 🙃 Specifially: emotions and moods and personalities...

See, I've come to a very UNscientific belief re: our feelings. I think ~80% of our day-to-day emotions come from what's right in front of us…

Uncertainty, Canceling, & Change

Uncertainty, Canceling, & Change

Wow. What a year last week was, huh? (Is that joke getting old yet?? Haha...)

2020 keeps piling on the intensity for sure. And I want to take a few minutes this week and talk with you about uncertainty, canceling, and change. Because it seems as if a lot of us are stuck in one gear of 2020-intensity and could benefit from hitting the *pause* button and coming up for air to remind ourselves what's what…

Election Anxiety

Election Anxiety

Welp, we're officially less than a month away from election day.

My husband and I have wondered if it feels important, contentious, and divisive simply because of where we're at in life (homeowners, with school-aged kids, he's a teacher, I'm a small business owner, we have parents who are retired, deep love for our community, etc.). Or whether it truly is THIS important, contentious, and divisive…

We Were Made for This

We Were Made for This

When the memo for 2020 landed on our collective desks (pandemic! racial injustice! political strife!) it didn't sound great. And eight months in, it's still not sounding so hot.

But every once in a while, I come up for air and look around and think, "Huh, look at us! We're doing it!" It's messy and frustrating and weird, but we. are. DOING. it…

Disassociating

Disassociating

This week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast, we're talking about a topic that I've had on the to-podcast-about list for a long while...we're talking about disassociating.

Disassociation is a break in how your mind handles information…

Creating a Sustainable Life

Creating a Sustainable Life

Happy Earth Day! Today on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast, we're going to do something to honor sustainability, but from the perspective of you, your body, and your mind. We're talking about creating a sustainable life using the natural resources of YOU.

Health Anxiety

Health Anxiety

Unless you're living on the moon, Coronavirus is pretty much top of mind right now. And even on an ordinary day, health anxiety affects somewhere between 5% - 25% of the adult American population.

So I thought it was time to talk about health-related anxiety on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast. Because, folks: today we’re going to take our power back

My Favorite Thoughts

My Favorite Thoughts

You know that voice in your mind, that constant chatter, that ticker-tape of ideas and judgments and opinions that goes on all day every day?

Most of us are so used to that voice because well, it's always been there. We haven't questioned it. We haven't challenged the stories it tells us. We sometimes don't even really pay attention because well, we know it's not going anywhere…