Building a Non-Anxious Life

by John Delony

connection over isolation,

belief over paralyzing fear,

Everyone has anxiety.

most stressed-out,

out-of-control

mix is refreshing and empowering

understand these choices and observe them on a daily basis,

follow these choices,

experience peace like never before.

spastic

weird vocal tics.

anxiety,

clinical

pho...

s...

debili...

chronic ...

bur...

panic

lonely,

weren’t designed for digital yet physically distant

can’t handle

countless

pressing emergencies and life...

just have so much

anxiety is not the issue here.”

Anxiety is just the alarm

anxious

bodies are trying to get their...

just a smoke alarm,

scientific treatise

not going to help anyone.

what was happening to their minds, bodies, and families.

people were anxious.

clearly remember being buried by my own anxiety: Unable to sleep despite increasing levels of exhaustion. Sharing a bed with the woman who loved me, yet still feeling completely alone. Paranoid that Everyone is coming after me! or It’s all coming down!

academic nerd,

find great value in theories and ideas.

sick to my stomach with fear and stress.

can’t get her heart to stop beating out of her chest.

hurricane of ruminating thoughts.

he’s just mad.

rediscovering the old roads

stop ignoring the smoke alarms

start fighting the fire

deal with your relationships, your personal environment, your health and healing, and your mindset and emotions

capable of responding in ways

faces and accepts the pain and heartbreaks and grief,

yet finds joy and community and possibility

Not yet.

Out of habit.