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Serenity Prayer for Coping with Anxiety

Today I want to talk about prayer. I like to use the Serenity Prayer for coping with anxiety and panic attacks. You may have heard the serenity prayer. It is one of the most popular and beloved prayers and it … Continue reading →

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“Free Time” Anxiety Syndrome

Today’s post is about having “Free Time” anxiety. You know, down time. As in what do you like to do in your free time? Anxiety can make it pretty hard to “chillax” as my daughter would say. With my current … Continue reading →

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Just for Today I Will Not Worry

This morning- really early- I had to take my teenage daughter for blood work ordered by her pediatrician (routine stuff, nothing bad). She has a phobia to needles and was very worried about this appointment all week. In the car … Continue reading →

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Some Things To Consider When Overcoming Panic Attacks

In my last post I talked about how I had been carrying around tension from a scuffle my dog got into where he could have injured a puppy. It was really traumatic for me and the result was I had … Continue reading →

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Oh No Not Again! My Anxiety Came Back out of Nowhere… Or Did It?

Yesterday I had an experience at work where I came very close to having a spontaneous panic attack. I didn’t actually have one- I just sort of lingered in this very highly anxious state which was extremely distressing for me. … Continue reading →

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What Does Anxiety Recovery Mean?

If you polled a thousand people who suffer from debilitating anxiety or panic attacks and asked them what is it they really want, the answer would be the same: a cure. Heck if you polled a million anxious people and … Continue reading →

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A Challenge: Let’s Try Not Adding Second Fear Today

In an earlier post, we talked about how anxious people torture themselves by experiencing first fear, which is the normal startle reaction that everyone gets, and then how we add a ton of second fear to it. We don’t even … Continue reading →

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Why Anxious People Torture Themselves (and what to do about it)

Did you know that as an anxious person you are actually torturing yourself? Of course we don’t realize it or we sure as hell wouldn’t do it. Below is the best explanation I have found for why anxious people do … Continue reading →

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