Tag: anxiety
reframing or revealing?
Cognitive behavioral therapy invokes tools that allow you to pause and reframe situations into a less traumatic context or gain…
the rationalizer procrastinates
The skill of rationalization allows for procrastination, but even odder is that it often works to accomplish its goal. While…
anxious action
When you are anxious you aren’t profound. You feel the need to act: to speak, to do. This acidic aggravation…
clockwork man: time uses us
Since the invention of the clock, time can be wasted, which converts time into a resource to be controlled and…
stress is a wonky shopping cart
Stress thwarts open awareness through intense focus, utilizing the Left side of the brain. Peace allows the non-verbal Right side…
normalized anxiety
The unknown and risk offer excitement and anxiety: the urge to rid ourselves of these extremes drives us forward. This…
Calm amidst rage: detached observation
You can be fine, even happy, amid anxiety and outrage. These feelings come over us, but we can watch them…
Anxiety as Control
Sharing your anxiousness has a goal: forcing others to take note and show their caring. The loss of control that…