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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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Theme · The cost of avoiding

Being seen and judged 2 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Panic and the body 1 The cost of avoiding 1

How long you have · Longer

Five minutes 2 Twenty minutes 2 Longer 1

When · In a change

Any ordinary day 2 In a change 1 Under stress 1

A long stretch at home is never neutral time. It teaches two things at once: staying away stops the dread, and staying away is pleasant.

That double lesson is why a few months out is so much harder to undo than a few days. First comes relief, then the slow morning, the screen, the…

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