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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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23 practicesTheme · What worry does
How long you have · Five minutes
Treat the whole of social media as poison and you will never hear anything true about it again. Some of what happens there is genuinely good for people.
Drawing, making things, finding others who share an unusual interest, keeping up with people who live far away: none of that needs fixing. What…
Some young people are behind their age emotionally and socially, and the growing up genuinely has not finished. It is a question of timing rather than of character.
This lands very differently in a family than the words immature or lazy do. If you expect the emotional handling of a twenty year old from someone…
Parents see an adult sized person and assume adult sized judgement. It helps to say out loud that the wiring is still being finished well past eighteen.
The look of the young person is doing the arguing, and it is very persuasive, so only a plain statement will counter it. Say that the parts used for…