This episode follows Chapter 2, Lie # 7: “You Can’t” of Anxiety… I’m So Done with You! One of anxiety’s most powerful lies is telling you you can’t. Just that you can’t. Period. Vagueness is anxiety’s superpower. What would happen when you ask, “why not?” in response? In this episode, you’ll learn: When you ask […]
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This episode follows Chapter 2, Lie # 6: “You Can’t Trust Anyone” of Anxiety… I’m So Done with You! In this episode, you’ll learn: It’s hard when anxiety convinces you that you can’t trust anyone or shouldn’t need people because people need people. I’ll teach you that when you learn how to trust yourself, you
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This episode goes with Chapter 2, Lie # 5: “You Shouldn’t Have To Do It” of Anxiety… I’m So Done with You! Much of the time, it is easier and better for you to do hard things rather than resist them. Do you believe that? It’s true! And I’ll explain it in this episode. You’ll
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This episode goes with Chapter 2, Lie # 4: “You Must Be In Control!” of Anxiety… I’m So Done with You! It’s time to unpack control. I’ve said control issues are anxiety issues, and now we need to dig deeper into “control.” In this episode, you’ll learn: Do you feel anxiety about being in control?
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Here is my anxiety story: Anxiety was recruited into my life when I was just five years old. It was February 1977. My father, sister and I tumbled out of our wood-paneled station wagon, returning home from “Indian Princesses,” a YMCA craft and activity program. (Scroll to bottom to watch me tell this on
People with anxiety feel isolated. (Anxiety wants us to be isolated because then it has more power over us without you there to pull us out of it.) But this makes us feel like no one feels as bad as we do. We tend to pull away from people that we love even though this is the worst
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Social Anxiety is so horrible! It makes you feel vulnerable. But, you are not as vulnerable as you think. One of the tricks of anxiety is that it takes all of your possible (read “near impossible”) vulnerability and shoves it in your face so that terror is all you can see ahead of you. When this happens,
Stress can kill you! Oh, crap! We are all wound up so tight that we are constantly buzzing on cortisol. Imagine white-knuckling it on a rollercoaster. All. Day. Long. That’s us in 2016. The election. Financial problems. Work pressure. Terrorists. School. Illness. Pain. Gah! We don’t have to look far to find something to stress