Instead of demanding calmness, it is more beneficial to expect anxiety and discomfort, allowing for a more accepting and flexible approach to managing anxiety symptoms.
Journaling Tips for Anxiety Disorder Recovery
Journaling can be a useful tool in anxiety recovery, but how do you ensure it works for you and not against you?
Journaling can be a useful tool in anxiety recovery, but how do you ensure it works for you and not against you?
A Guided Acceptance Exercise for Anxiety
Fully letting go of the fight – fully accepting the experience of being anxious or afraid or even having a full panic attack – is a central concept in anxiety disorder recovery.
Fully letting go of the fight – fully accepting the experience of being anxious or afraid or even having a full panic attack – is a central concept in anxiety disorder recovery.
Micro Exposure in Anxiety Recovery
Starting small, with micro exposures, is an excellent way to learn what accepting and allowing anxiety looks and feels like.
Starting small, with micro exposures, is an excellent way to learn what accepting and allowing anxiety looks and feels like.
Anxiety and Avoidance: How Do I Know if I’m Avoiding?
Are you struggling to identify whether your behaviors are forms of avoidance in your anxiety recovery journey?
Are you struggling to identify whether your behaviors are forms of avoidance in your anxiety recovery journey?
Anxiety Recovery Without Exposure?
Can you recover from an anxiety disorder without doing exposure? The answer is … no. But it’s not as easy as that.
Can you recover from an anxiety disorder without doing exposure? The answer is … no. But it’s not as easy as that.
Bad Online Anxiety Advice?
The Internet is packed with anxiety and mental health advice, but not all of it is useful or helpful. Some of it can be harmful.
The Internet is packed with anxiety and mental health advice, but not all of it is useful or helpful. Some of it can be harmful.
Healing From Anxiety?
Healing from chronic or disordered anxiety. How do we do it? Do we do it at all?
Healing from chronic or disordered anxiety. How do we do it? Do we do it at all?
Do I Really Have to Sit With Anxiety?
What if you could transform your relationship with anxiety simply by changing your approach?
What if you could transform your relationship with anxiety simply by changing your approach?
When Panic Attacks Come Out of the Blue
It’s actually good news that there are no true “random” panic attacks.
It’s actually good news that there are no true “random” panic attacks.
Thinking and Feeling … About Thinking and Feeling
Metacognitive beliefs can sometimes be the glue that keeps us stuck to our symptoms, thoughts, and big emotions.
Metacognitive beliefs can sometimes be the glue that keeps us stuck to our symptoms, thoughts, and big emotions.
Anxiety Grounding Exercises Revisited
You’re in the middle of a huge wave of intense anxiety and fear, or maybe you’re experiencing a full blown panic attack.
You’re in the middle of a huge wave of intense anxiety and fear, or maybe you’re experiencing a full blown panic attack.
Common Themes in Anxious Fears
Anxious people that fear that they will embarrass themselves are expressing the fear of not being able to handle that embarrassed feeling.
Anxious people that fear that they will embarrass themselves are expressing the fear of not being able to handle that embarrassed feeling.
Anxious Sensory Overload and Overwhelm
People struggling with chronic or disordered states of anxiety often find themselves in a situation where they are hyper aware and therefore overwhelmed by anxious sensory overload.
People struggling with chronic or disordered states of anxiety often find themselves in a situation where they are hyper aware and therefore overwhelmed by anxious sensory overload.
When Anxiety Triggers Pop up … but You Still Have Choices
Anxiety triggers and what to do when triggered are hot topics in our community.
Anxiety triggers and what to do when triggered are hot topics in our community.
I Fear My Anxiety! Can I Still Accept It and Get Better?
Engage in acts of acceptance so you can learn that you don’t have to be so afraid.
Engage in acts of acceptance so you can learn that you don’t have to be so afraid.