anxiety

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems,” wrote Epictetus. As a person with anxiety, this quote hits close to home. Nothing on earth is as daunting as what lies in our own minds.…

“Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life...My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something,” wrote Elizabeth Gaskell. There's nothing wrong with…

Some of us really have a hard time keeping things quiet upstairs. What is meant by that is this: as humans we overthink stuff. It is easy to get caught up in reactivity and let our minds race. Here are some ways to slow down the hamster…

“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it,” wrote Robert E. Neale in The Art of Dying. Anxiety is, indeed, difficult to live with. However, some of the most creative…

Does it feel like you have been burning at both ends lately? Is it almost as if you are always just waiting for everything to fall apart and the worst disaster in the world to take place at your hands? Many suffer from this tightening, gut…

Social anxiety is a daily struggle. As human beings, we have a deep need for personal connection. Social anxiety strongly inhibits this. Its presence can cause even small tasks to become truly challenging. Many of us turn to spirituality…

Anxiety is frustrating, stressful, and completely terrifying. It steals the joy from your life and replaces it with fear. It doesn't make sense, but recognizing its illogical nature doesn't make it go away. As Charles Haddon Spurgeon…