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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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Breaking the worry loop After a row Clear all

Theme · Breaking the worry loop

The cost of avoiding 2 Breaking the worry loop 1 Facing it a step at a time 1

When · After a row

Any ordinary day 16 Under stress 6 After a row 1 Coming and going 1

Sourness, shutting down, snapping at everyone: these are as often worry as they are attitude. The person is not giving you a hard time, they are having one.

This matters because of what happens next. Read it as rudeness and the house responds with punishment, which adds to the load that produced the…

Five minutesBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 41:36