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

The thought that nobody at the party will want to talk to you is chemistry, not a report about the world. You do not have to disprove it. You only have to notice where it came from.

Arguing with an anxious thought while the alarm is still ringing is heavy work and it rarely goes well. Reclassifying it is lighter: this is what my…

A minuteBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 50:16