Category: Anxiety

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…

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…

Here’s a quiz: What emotions do you imagine a child is experiencing when they pronounce their hatred towards someone? Anger? Sadness? Fear? Shame? Answer: Any or all of the above. One of…

pexel by Rachel Claire The school year is about to begin, and if you’re anything like me, I am dreading the rush, rush, rush that happens in my house. I loved how…

Memory biases are one of the cognitive factors that contribute to health anxiety. One type of memory bias responsible for maintaining health anxiety is selective memory. Maybe there was one time or…

Is it a headache or an aneurysm? Chest tightness or a heart attack? A stomachache or stomach cancer? Our bodies do the darndest things. Our bodies are the switchboard for our emotions;…

Dirima/Shutterstock In 2019, an international team of researchers led by Linds Ernstsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology published a study that identified a correlation between higher levels of cardiorespiratory…

Have you ever thought about embarking on an empowering journey toward self-discovery, resilience, and your dream life, but find anxiety holding you back? Let me share with you a tale of triumphing…

Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply tell your brain not to worry? Unfortunately, that doesn’t work. So, let’s quickly review three skills that do work, then learn a powerful written…

People think about what happens more than what doesn’t happen. We think of what we’ll do today, not what we’ll prevent ourselves from doing as a product of our self-control, our constraints…