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Why Anxiety Lies to You: Understanding the Stories Your Brain Tells
Anxiety is remarkably convincing. When it tells you that something terrible is about to happen, it does not present that as a theory; it presents it as fact. When it insists that people are judging you, or that you will not be able to handle what is coming, or that the worst-case scenario is the most likely one, it does so with a certainty that can be very hard to argue with. This is not a character flaw. It is how anxiety works. And understanding why it does this is often th
Jul 163 min read


Living in a Perpetual Breaking News Era: How It Affects Us and What Can Help
Open your phone on any given day and there is a good chance something feels urgent. A policy change, a disaster, a crisis somewhere in the world, a local story that hits close to home. Then tomorrow there is something else, and the day after that, something else again. If you have noticed a low hum of dread that never fully goes away, or a sense that you cannot quite relax because something new might happen at any moment, you are not imagining it. Many people are describing t
Jun 174 min read
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