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…

  • Real Cool v Fake Cool

    Real cool lacks striving and is comfortable. Fake cool adopts the affectation of not caring while caring immensely, which requires…