Anxiety is the body’s way of asking for our attention. It arrives quietly at first; restless thoughts, a tightening in the chest, a sense that something is off. Then it grows louder. My heart races, my breath shortens, my mind starts to spin. Suddenly I am no longer in my body but in my fears, chasing imagined outcomes I cannot control.

Many of us have learned to fear anxiety itself. We treat it as a sign of weakness or instability, something to manage,........

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