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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 it a step at a time A minute Under stress Clear all

Theme · Facing it a step at a time

What worry does 3 The cost of avoiding 3 Treatment and medication 3 Being seen and judged 2 Breaking the worry loop 1 Obsessions and compulsions 1 Panic and the body 1 Facing it a step at a time 1

How long you have · A minute

A minute 1 Five minutes 3 Twenty minutes 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 2 Under stress 1

About this theme

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.

When a child digs in, try reading it as frightened rather than difficult. Most of them want to get this right and simply do not yet know how.

Refusal that looks like defiance is usually fear sitting on top of a missing skill, and those two call for different responses. Treat it as defiance…

A minuteFacing it a step at a timeCBTQur’an 4:28