Most of us have a tendency to mentally time-travel into the future and, while we're there, tell wild stories about how everything is going to HORRIBLY wrong. You know what I mean?
Why It Doesn't Suck
MVP: Worry is Not Love
MVP: The Inner Voices
MVP: Friend Anxiety
MVP: How to Let it Go
MVP: Certainty, Uncertainty, & Anxiety
Conflict Anxiety
The Anxiety of Anxiety
Happiness & Joy
Happy SUMMER! It's officially here and I'm on vacation this week. I'm visiting my home-away-from-home, Chicago, and right now I'm probably walking along Lake Michigan with an iced coffee in hand, hanging out with my adopted city, visiting my old apartment, and making sure some of my favorite places (like Ann Sather's, Unabridged Books, and Intelligentsia) are still there…
Regulating Your Nervous System
One of the most valuable things we, as people who tend towards anxiety, can learn to do is regulate our nervous systems.
Why?
Feeling anxious ups the adrenaline and cortisol in your system. And you become a bit of a pressure cooker, constantly turning up the volume with more to-do lists, more people-pleasing, and more perfectionism…
Would You Buy What You're Selling?
There's Always Something
The One About Hope
I recently finished reading Jane Goodall's newest book, The Book About Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times and I got to thinking...we should talk about hope.
Because no matter what your personal experience with anxiety looks like, no matter whether anxiety is something new to you or a very old companion, no matter how often anxiety ebbs and flows in your life, there's a common thing that brings all of us together each week for The Transforming Anxiety Podcast…
Acceptance vs. Apathy
If you've been hanging around with me for a while, you know I talk a *lot* about acceptance (if you're new, buckle up...it's a very common theme here). But I've bumped into something interesting in my own personal work and I wanted to bring it to the podcast and explore it with you and that's: acceptance vs. apathy…