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excessive fear
related behavioral disturbances.”
Our body’s response to grief, stress, childhood traumas, job loss, relationship challenges, and rumors of war cannot be captured in a series of neat categories
head starts pounding
stomach
Anxiety is just an alarm.
body senses you are alone and disconnected from your friends, family, community, or tribe.
body senses you are unsafe,
body recognizes it is unhealthy,
generally your body’s way of trying to take care of you and get your attention.
anxiety “good.”
“psychological and physical response to stress.
But the alarms are loud.
grueling, powerful, and debilitating.
addicted to the stress chemicals
let your internal chemistry do its work.
Anxiety
connected
that filter and direct memories a...
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Anxiety is connected to memory.
joy and pain are on the same switch.
“one means of allaying anxiety is frantic activity.”
our bodies felt
dopamine and serotonin high-fived
internal actions
rumination
and perfect...
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mindful of your thoughts
than allowing
zeroed in on the critic
disregarded
people wh...
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sometimes,
quiet and tranquil.
You thought
you’d always be blessed.
Grief
accepting reality.
We write another
We live at
no healing without grief.
pause and listen
she believed she was damaged goods.
When we come to understand that our body is getting our attention by sounding anxiety alarms, it’s easy to think we are no longer ourselves.
you are not sick.
anxiety
a habit and, over time,
addic...
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romanticize their anxiety and/or stress.
enjoy a stable, loving relationship.
