Ever walk into a room and feel all eyes are looking at you? You imagine people are judging your every flaw. You start to shrink and think about everything that is wrong…
Category: Anxiety
Taming the “Sunday Scaries” Before a New Work Week
Source: Gift Habeshaw/ Unsplash In a therapy session, a 45-year-old marketing manager I’ll call Jackconfessed: “I love the weekend, but right about dinner time on Sunday night, I start getting nervous. I…
What It’s Like to Have Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), or social phobia, is a chronic condition in which people have an intense fear of being embarrassed, humiliated, watched, judged, or offending others. For those with SAD, everyday…
Practical Tips on Changing Anxious Thoughts
Put worries and fears into words. Vanessa Garcia / Pexels This post is part one of a series. We know that challenging distorted or “irrational” thinking reduces anxiety. But how exactly do…
Anger and Anxiety: Two Sides of the Same Coin
We’ve all been on the receiving end of an angry outburst. Often, we are so dysregulated by the threat that we can’t even understand what we’ve done wrong! Our responses usually take…
Transitions Can Be Tricky |
Self- compassion with every bite! Photo courtesy of Julian Clauss-Ehlers Olliver clung to me as I dropped him off for his third day of second grade. “I’m going to miss you, mama.”…
4 Things Effective Anxiety Therapists Do
If you are seeking therapy for anxiety, the quality of your therapist matters. If you don’t have a direct recommendation from someone you trust for a good anxiety therapist, it can be…
5 Ways to Calm Your Brain
Source: Wedding Dreamz /Unsplash We all have differently regulated nervous systems. What might emotionally trigger one person might have little or no emotional impact on another. If I say, “A big storm…
A New Way to Cope With Overthinking
If you are an overthinker, you will know how anxiety-provoking it can be to get stuck in thought loops that don’t seem to stop. A central idea of acceptance and commitment therapy…
4 Ways to Cope With a Panic Attack
Source: Nestea06/Envato Elements About a week after September 11, 2001, I was in the bathroom of my cousin’s house, hyperventilating and thinking I was having a heart attack. Just before that, I…