For more than twenty years, I have been ‘preaching’ about the importance not to demonize anxiety but to approach this challenging emotion with compassion and patience. Therefore, what I’m about to share with you might sound surprising and perhaps even controversial. As someone who has dealt with anxiety myself and has helped countless clients overcome it without medication, I’ve witnessed firsthand the devastating effects it can have.

One of the most challenging and frustrating aspects of anxiety is how it can take up so much mental real estate that the best we can do is to just cope with the emotion to make it through another day. Eventually, anxiety........

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