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All measures are showing that anxiety has increased exponentially since the 1950s. But why? Our expectations on quality of life would be one reason. We are actually far better off than people living in the 1950s but our expectations are growing faster than reality. We are basically never satisfied. A second reason may be choice. […]
New Science is showing us that we tend to disconnect from who we are in order to survive. My story is that my mum was not attentive as she could be when I was a baby, she wasn’t attuned and responsive due to the circumstances in her own personal life. Sometimes trauma is in good things […]
I love the following verse from Exodus chapter 13 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.” God purposely led the children of Israel the […]
You can’t let the fear of the future, of not knowing where you are going, control you and stop you doing the things you really want to do. For most people suffering from being afraid of things – it is really all in their head! They are sort of just making that fear up, imaginary […]
Most of life has uncertainty. Professor of Psychology Robert Leahy tells of a scientific study where they asked chronic worries to predict what would happen and they followed it up by actually finding out what happened. They discovered that 85% of the things that people predicted would have a bad outcome had a neutral or a positive outcome. […]
We often react to fear in a scary movie or roller coaster by giggling but real life fear can be debilitating. In a movie theatre or on a fairground ride I would suggest we are experiencing ‘contained’ fear, we know that we are safe but we get this vicarious feeling that we are overcoming and mastering our fear. […]
Fear comes, peaks and abates. This is the normal fear pattern. When it sticks with you awhile you might call it worry. If you are facing longer lasting fear, hang with whatever sensations you are feeling do no try to stop the feelings, embrace them. The moment we can become curious of our fear it is […]
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