You have probably tried to reason your way calm. You have talked yourself through it, weighed the evidence, told yourself it will be fine, and noticed the worry barely flinched. That is not a personal failing. It is a clue about how anxiety actually works, and why the usual advice to think positive or just […]
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Maybe you cannot switch off, your mind races at night and your shoulders seem to live somewhere up around your ears, and even on a quiet evening your body stays braced for something that never quite arrives. Or maybe it is the opposite, and you feel flat, heavy, and oddly far away, going through the
If you live with anxiety, self-doubt, or that nagging sense that you are about to be found out, you will know the sense of certainty that comes with it. The thought does not arrive as a maybe, it arrives as a verdict, a fact or reality that is strangely convincing, and your whole body seems
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I want to admit to something I got wrong for a long time. For years I did not value the importance and benefit of breathwork. My training had taught me to be sceptical of it, that the use of breathing exercises could actually operate as a safety-seeking behaviour which would slow down the treatment rather
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It is Sunday evening and the working week has not even started, yet your mind is already three meetings ahead. You are rehearsing the difficult conversation, drafting the reply you have not been asked for yet, quietly scanning the week for the thing most likely to go wrong. If someone asked what you were doing,
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You wake before the alarm with your chest already tight and your heart going, though nothing has actually happened yet. Or you are sitting in a meeting when your mind empties, your face goes hot, and your body seems to brace as if for impact. Later you wonder what is wrong with you, why you
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