You undoubtedly hear this all the time: your daughter doesn’t want to do her math homework or clean her room because she doesn’t feel like it, your partner doesn’t feel like going…
Category: Anxiety
The Power of Perception to Reduce Anxiety and Depression
Source: gpointstudio/Shutterstock Why do we so easily upset ourselves? We wake up in the middle of the night and start worrying about the future, regretting the past, and asking, “What if…?” until…
4 Practices to Strengthen Your Mental Health
Source: Mohamed Hasan/ Pixabay, Used with permission. In today’s era of doom scrolling and constant connectivity, it is sadly unsurprising that Americans’ mental health is plummeting to new lows, with nearly one…
Remaining Emotionally Anchored During Times of Uncertainty
Over a lifetime, most people will experience a situation when they are terrified about an outcome going terribly wrong. A state of uncertainty can produce symptoms of anxiety, such as an impending…
How to Break the Panic Attack Cycle
Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels If you have ever experienced a panic attack, you know how awful it feels. It would make sense if you did everything possible to prevent having another one. Unfortunately, the…
How to Grow Your Tolerance for Uncertainty
A common theme underlying most anxiety is discomfort with or fear of uncertainty. The more uncomfortable you are with uncertainty, the more likely you are to struggle with anxiety. For many, anxious…
Speaking to Millennial Moms’ Anxiety
‘Everyone but Myself’ by Julie Chavez Source: Zibby Books, used with permission While postpartum depression and anxiety are becoming more well-known and understood, many mothers struggle with anxiety and depression later on…
How Long Do Panic Attacks Last?
My pen dragged diligently across my notebook in my undergraduate classes some years ago. “A panic attack usually lasts about fifteen minutes, the body can’t sustain that activation for long.” Still, this…
Avoid Worry: Strategies to Protect You and Your Relationship
Excessive worry is costly. It takes time and energy but brings little rewards. It often leaves the worrier feeling helpless, anxious, physically depleted, and more worried. Interpersonally, it compromises relationships, leaving partners…
5 Affirmations to Overcome Social Anxiety
Blindness, S. I. (2010). Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events Daniel J. Simons and Christopher F. Chabris. Perception: Visual perception, 2, 277. Kumar, A., & Epley, N. (2018)….