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Worry and anxiety

Anxiety is not a character flaw and it is not weak faith. It is a body doing what it was built to do, at a moment when it is not needed. The practices here work on the loop itself: what worry promises and never delivers, what avoiding costs you, and how to let the body come down.

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Facing a fear in steps works, and it works best with someone guiding the ladder. Read this as an explanation of how it works, and take the steps themselves to a therapist.

Being pushed into something before you are ready does more than frighten you. It teaches you that the pacing you were promised cannot be trusted, and that is the harder thing to repair.

After a step that overwhelmed them, most people go straight back to avoiding, and they also start negotiating every later step defensively, which is…

Five minutesFacing it a step at a timeCBTQur’an 28:31