It’s the year 2023, and Dr. Nicole Hawkins, the CEO of the Center for Change, a respected eating disorder facility, faces a new and concerning challenge: an extensive waitlist of patients in…
Anxiety and Friendships: New School Year, Fresh Start
The start of the school year can breed anxiety for parents of anxious children, teens, and young adults. Although your child may want and seek and desire friendships, this may be an…
The Post-Pandemic Mid-Life Crisis |
Life was very different when Erik Erickson defined mid-life (ages 40-65 years) as a type of crossroads between generativity and stagnation in his psychosocial stages model in 1950. Life expectancy was only…
How To Set Emotional Boundaries
Source: realworkhard/Pixabay You and your best friend are “joined at the hip,” hanging together all the time, even able to finish each other’s sentences. Your brother is struggling with a breakup, and…
Aging Men and the Male Freakout
Source: Jens Otte/Shutterstock A colleague recently said to me, on observing the rise of authoritarian regimes throughout the world, that the human race is in the grips of a “male freakout.” His…
Being Fit May Lower the Need to Buy Anti-Anxiety Medication
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…
How to Support and Not Enable Highly Sensitive Children
Source: isakarakus/ Pixabay In families with a highly sensitive child (HSC), one parent—typically the mom—often becomes their child’s “emotional support parent” (ESP), the child’s primary and most desired (or demanded) source of…
How to Reclaim Your Life From Anxiety
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…
Why a Well-Adjusted Partner Makes Some People Nervous
Keychains with emoji handing on a rope; shallow focus Source: This is Zun/Pexels Consider a person, let’s call him Steve, who is in a relationship with a highly anxious romantic partner. Steve…
Listening to Worries Can Actually Make You Less Anxious
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…