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Worried about the UNKNOWN? There is no such thing. Nope.
You, my friend, are freaking out over a very specific known. It is the known your mind conjured as what could be. So, if you ‘fear the unknown’, you can…
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As if struggling with the varied signs and symptoms of high-functioning anxiety are not enough, the medications I take for my body’s other troubles add more nasty variety to the mix? Are you kidding me?
No. No, I am not kidding you.
SIDE EFFECTS. Before we get started. Who came up with the tidy colloquialism known as 'side effects'? You know...those effects that are the not-desirable deliverables of the selected pharmaceutical? Big Pharma…
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Doing Your Best Yet You Are Still Anxious, Screwing-up, Afraid of the UNKNOWN…and, Perhaps, Failing? What to DO? Victory Starts HERE: With Your WORD DOMINATION!!
Failures, Screw-Ups and Unknowns… Oh-No! …would make anybody anxious. Right? Think again. Words are so much fun because, well, there are so many of them to choose from. (You…
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Oh, I know You’ve Thought It: I May Kill the Next Person Who Tells Me to ‘BE HERE NOW’.
…WTF. I am HERE NOW. I may be thinking about tomorrow, but I am here now. Okay. I may be thinking about yesterday, but I am here now. __ What…
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Judgement is the state of BEING RIGHT and KNOWING WHAT IS WRONG, DAMMIT. How could that be a TRAP? How could that cause ANXIETY? Where, oh WHERE, would we be without JUDGEMENT? This World Would FALL APART, I tell you. It would be total CHAOS. What is WRONG WITH YOU, you free-thinking troublemaker? What would happen to this world without JUDGEMENT?!?
I dunno. You decide. When you filter everything through the screen of your reference point, you wrap yourself inside the safety of a custom-built summer lanai, right? Whatever does not…
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If Resilience is the Quality of Being Able to Recover and Bounce Back Quickly (and Well?) From Something Difficult…but You Don’t Have Anything to Bounce Back TO, Where Do You Bounce?
No one would argue: Resilience is a necessary quality for survival. Resilience. A word we throw around like we know what it means…like we know how to get it…or like…
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Your Inner Image is Not Something Only You See…Your Private Thing That No One Else Knows About. No, No. No, Sirree. It Is Very Much What Everyone Else Sees…and Maybe Exactly What You DON’T.
Your Inner Image is Your Product: It’s what is available and accessible to the world. What people see, feel and believe about you is the restuls of [what amounts to]…
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The Joyless World of SHOULD. Stop playing the worst Mad-Lib game on the planet!
It is the worst Mad-Lib game on the planet. You should always (__________). …
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Proceed With Caution: MY. My. Mine. Whoa. Be Careful.
Apart from the word for “mother” and “father”, your my/mine was the earliest concept you learned...and two of the most prolific words to ever strike a note in your inner…
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GUILT (Part II): The ACCUSER!
The Accuser. The person who accuses you does not feel guilt. Rather, that person feels an opposite sensation: the THRILL OF SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS! Pointing a finger can feel so powerful for…