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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

The cost of avoiding 4 Being seen and judged 4 Facing it a step at a time 3 Obsessions and compulsions 2 What worry does 1 Living with uncertainty 1 Panic and the body 1 Breaking the worry loop 1

How long you have · Longer

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Short sessions spread over days beat one long night. The settling of what you learned happens after you stop, and a short night undoes a good deal of the day's work.

A perfectionist will not cut their hours to be kinder to themselves, but they will cut them to get a better mark. So argue it on those terms.…

LongerBreaking the worry loopCBTQur’an 25:47