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Anxiety,  Childhood Trauma and Therapy About childhood trauma Sometimes anxiety can have deep-seated roots.  Childhood trauma can result from specific events that a young person was unable to integrate successfully into their experience.  In an effort to survive the shock … Continue reading →

Anxiety’s Engine For most of us anxiety is a collection of thoughts that run repeatedly in our minds.  They are like tape recordings that we recycle again and again.  The excessive air time that they get in our minds can … Continue reading →

Treating Anxiety and our Internal Family A very intriguing way of discovering what anxiety is trying to tell us is by getting to know the unique cast of inner characters that we each carry inside us.  When you say ‘part … Continue reading →

Anxiety or Curiosity As an alternative to the spiral of anxiety, I often introduce my clients to the possibility of cultivating curiosity.  Anxiety is fear based.  Curiosity, on the other hand, is based on openness and exploration.  It’s based on … Continue reading →

Anxiety and Self-Judgment Often when clients come in with concerns about the future or about their sense of inadequacy, I ask them to describe things that they have done in their lives, situations they’ve had to deal with.  It’s amazing … Continue reading →

Notice Anxiety It seems that many spiritual traditions have noticed the same thing about our thinking mind–it’s a great servant, but it’s not really the boss.  It isn’t really the one in charge of the big picture.  Our minds have … Continue reading →

Anxiety Can Sometimes Be Fine When I was an adolescent an interesting man once said to me, “There is a big difference between being brave and being fearless.”  I pondered this, and finally asked him what he meant.  He explained … Continue reading →

Anxiety is Popular If people’s problems were to be rated in terms of popularity, anxiety is probably our culture’s most popular form of discomfort.  Just knowing this may not really help you to feel better.  Anxiety keeps people feeling off … Continue reading →

I would like to give you a sneak preview of the kind of work that a therapist might do with you to overcome anxiety.  I‘ll be offering you some very effective techniques that you can experiment with on your own.  … Continue reading →