Dear Anxiety, Please Drench My Armpits
When worry rears its ugly head, address your anxiety directly and paradoxically. When worry has relentlessly nagged you in the past, I imagine all you
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Your Game-Winning Strategy: Kick Content to the Curb
The story behind your worries is deliberately design to suck you in. Is the game Monopoly about real estate? Of course not. It’s about chance
Your Parental Worry Is Here to Stay
We cannot eliminate our worries about our children. But we can address them. On the September 11th episode of ABC’s The View, an all-too-common conversation
How We Talk Ourselves into Worry
Catastrophizing makes us worry-making machines. Photo by Daniel Tausis on Unsplash You’re strolling down the sidewalk, totally relaxed. You’re not on guard, for there’s no
Learn to Love Your Amygdala
That panic button in your brain is operating just as intended. Your mind has a brilliant capacity to respond to threat instantly and subconsciously. If
Let Worry Motivate Your Next Move
Legitimate worries are a stimulus to act. Hurricane preparedness was on the minds of Texans, Floridians, and folks in the Caribbean this past August as hurricanes
How to Approach Challenges with a Competitive Spirit
Cousin Don and the Gulag Archipelago Photo by GR Stocks on Unsplash I’m visiting my relatives in Wisconsin for the weekend. We’re playing charades, so
Learning to Love the Mat
The paradoxical approach to embracing failure. I called my son Patrick the evening of his Tae Kwon Do competition. He was 13 at the time, and
My Worry: Is It a Signal or Noise?
Differentiating between helpful and unhelpful worries Photo by Ali Pazani on Unsplash You’re 19 years old, wrapping up your sophomore year of college. That term
Why Discomfort Can Be So Good for You
There’s a good reason so many people embrace cobblestones and free weights. It seems like we humans are continually in search of the quickest, easiest, or