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Anxiety is not a one-size-fits-all experience.

There are four systems impacted by anxiety.

When anxiety starts to feel like information rather than a verdict, you've changed your relationship with it.

We all know anxiety is pervasive these days—chances are you or someone you love is struggling with it. And you may have experienced that the tools and strategies that work for your friend don’t work for you. Or maybe you’ve tried therapy and find that it is only taking you so far. Why is it that what works for one person doesn’t work for the next? Or that what works some of the time doesn’t work all the time?

In my previous post, "What Is Your Anxiety Type?" I described three patterns, or anxiety types, that anxiety tends to organize around. Knowing your anxiety type is an important place to start.

Beyond understanding your anxiety type, it is also important to know that anxiety is a multi-system experience—meaning that it affects you across four channels:

There is a constant interplay across these four channels, but research shows they don’t necessarily move together in sync. What this means is that you may experience intense somatic symptoms of anxiety without accompanying anxious thoughts, or you........

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