I struggled with social anxiety for most of my life. It began in childhood. It wasn’t until I discovered the power of acceptance that I was able to recover from this emotionally painful condition.
Recovery comes when Continue reading “Social Anxiety”
One feature of anxiety is how our emotions can change so radically and so quickly; often with no apparent reason. This dramatic fluctuation in our mood just Continue reading “Up and Down Emotions”
Anxiety occurs in a very predictable cycle. Understanding the anxiety mechanism is the foundation for recovery. Here is Continue reading “The Anxiety Cycle”
The fear that “nothing will ever change” can be a major stumbling block to recovery from anxiety. It is a very convincing fear, and can cause us to Continue reading “Fear that Nothing will ever Change”
One of the visuals that I use to describe facing and allowing anxiety symptoms, is to “walk into the storm”. But what does this mean? What does Continue reading “Walk into the Storm”
We have almost constant mental chatter in our heads. When we are in the anxiety state and highly sensitized, this chatter is loud and negative. If we wish to recover, then we must Continue reading “Things I Told Myself”
Simply put, anxiety is a reaction to uncertainty – a hopeless struggle to gain control of our lives and our feelings.
We are unable to tolerate the intensity and unpleasantness of our emotions and our physical anxiety symptoms, so we Continue reading “Anxiety and Uncertainty”
I have covered the acceptance approach to the recovery from anxiety on this website in the section titled: “The Method”. However, this is a very superficial explanation. Even though the principles of this approach are very simple Continue reading “The Acceptance Approach”
Much of our anxious thinking occurs when we are either ruminating on past events, or worrying about upcoming events in the future. Looking to the past or the future is useful only Continue reading “Staying in the Present”
I have found recovery from anxiety to be full of paradoxes – where I was required to think in the opposite way to what felt normal, opposite to the way I wanted to think. But I think the biggest paradox Continue reading “The Paradox of Anxiety Recovery”
