Posts Tagged ‘anxiety’
Negative Self-Talk
We’ve all done it. we’ve all heard ourselves say, “Oh, I’m the kind of person who doesn’t eat vegetables, who doesn’t work out, who doesn’t finish what I started, whose always late, who doesn’t drink water, who always procrastinates, who gets angry at the drop of a hat, who’s always anxious, who is a workaholic,…
Read MoreStress Response Cycle
Stress. We’re all awash with it in this day and age. We’re even more aware of it with everything going on right now. While our actual lives are rarely in danger, our bodies can feel like we’re about to be killed and eaten. And they respond how they’re supposed to be flooding our perfect little…
Read MoreUncertainty
Uncertainty is in the air right now, along with fear, worry, confusion. Today, my darling, we’ll be talking about uncertainty and how you can support yourself now, as ever. Whether you’re reading this during the COVID-19 quarantine or long after, the central message and tenants are the same. Life is full of uncertainty and accepting…
Read MoreBonus Podcast Episode 2: COVID-19/Corona – Anxiety, Stress & Thought Work for Healing
My beautiful perfect love. This is a time of global freak out. The air is full with panic, worry, stress, anxiety… but that doesn’t mean you need to be. You have the skills and resources within you to calm and soothe your perfect mind, body and spirit. I’ve made two special bonus episodes of the…
Read MoreBonus Podcast Episode 1: COVID-19/Corona – Regulating Your Stress Response
My beautiful perfect love. This is a time of global freak out. The air is full with panic, worry, stress, anxiety… but that doesn’t mean you need to be. You have the skills and resources within you to calm and soothe your perfect mind, body and spirit. I’ve made two special bonus episodes of the…
Read MoreHow to Stop Worrying for Good
Few things are as ubiquitous as worry. We all say it. We all do it. And it steals your joy, my darling. Worry takes you out of the present moment and keeps you from taking action to make your life the intentional thoughtful life you dream of living. Today, I’ll be detailing the steps you…
Read MoreWorry and Your Nervous System
Do you find yourself rolling around in worry, not taking action in your life or spinning in your thoughts about what a symptom or a situation could mean, feeling paralyzed by not knowing the future, spending your time now worrying about something that might happen, or might not? Worry is so common and it keeps…
Read MorePerfectionism: Why B+ Work is Key to Healing
Perfectionism is a sneaky little thought habit indeed. It keeps us running in a perpetual hamster wheel of self-doubt, self-loathing, and never enoughness. So what is perfectionism? And how do we know if perfectionist thinking is what’s driving us? How can we distinguish goal- setting, ambition, desire, passion for our work, from perfectionism? Perfectionist thought…
Read MoreBuffering
Our society teaches us, in so many direct and insidious ways, that there is no need to sit with painful feelings. That you can pop a pill, have a drink, eat an indulgent food, fire off an email or a comment online and all those challenging feelings will just melt away. But the truth is,…
Read MoreFuture Tripping
I’ve been thinking a lot about future-tripping, also called anticipatory anxiety. Those times when we get so lost in worrying about the future and playing out different future scenarios, often the most doom and gloom filled ones, that we lose out on today. This used to be my brain’s favorite distraction technique, to keep…
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