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How to Stop Suffering Part 2

In Part 1, we discussed how our attempts at controlling our human pain — the unpleasant thoughts, emotions and sensations — don’t work and oftentimes create a whole new set of issues for us. So, let’s jump into two other concepts to understand Pain vs. Suffering. Let’s take social anxiety as an example. The “pain” that I feel with social

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Anxiety

How to Stop Suffering Part 1

What if IT, this thing that you have been struggling with for so long, isn’t a problem to be solved? What if you don’t truly have control over IT anyway? And what if the attempts at control are actually making IT worse? As we have previously covered, human pain is universal. It’s part of the ballgame. When we agreed to

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Overcoming Fear

How to Take Back Your Life from Fear

Fear is greedy. Fear will slowly steal real estate from your life if you let it. True fear, or a phobia if we want to call it that, is intense. We think about it while lying in bed at night and it can make us break out in a sweat on a cold, fall morning. Eventually, we start to rearrange

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Anxiety

Your Anxious Mind is Working Perfectly

Imagine you and I are walking in the African Savanna 200,000 years ago. I’m basking in the sounds of the birds singing in the trees, gazing at the orange sun on the horizon and soaking in the fragrance of the various flowers as we walk. You are anxiously scanning the horizon for potential enemy tribes, looking at the clouds, wondering

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Finding Purpose

Behind Our Emotional Pain is Purpose

At the core of all anxiety disorders is avoidance. We avoid people, places and situations in order to not experience unpleasant thoughts, emotions and sensations. When reflecting upon an upcoming event or situation where we may encounter something that could trigger fear, we often hyper-focus on “what we will have to go through” as opposed to focusing on “what we

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Anxiety

Overcoming Social Performance Anxiety

Oftentimes when we experience social anxiety, we feel as though we are performers on a stage and that each social encounter is just that, a performance. We feel as though we must meet the expectations of others and “be something” in particular as opposed to however we actually are in that moment. Of course this “expectation” is completely self-induced, as

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