Understanding How Anxiety is Created Humans are the only ones who can turn the stress response on by imagining threatening situations in our minds. When you worry, you are believing the “what if’s” that you tell yourself. Your fear response is activated as if there is real danger. If you were in danger the stress […]

When Your Worry Takes Over Worry is like being on a spinning ride minus the thrill of excitement. Instead worry is  experiencing spinning thoughts filled with what-ifs. One worry leads to another worry with no clear direction of how to stop the dizzying spin. Worry is not only spinning in circles, but it is also […]

Feeling Like You Can’t Control Your Anxious Feelings You no longer have to feel defeated by your brain chemicals being out of balance. Recent research is shedding new light on the complexity of symptom development, including the role our stress (or fear response) plays in symptom development. Brain research illuminates how we can utilize our […]

Is Your Happiness Dependent on Things Outside of Your Control? You feel like your happiness depends on others action. Or you can’t be happy unless the situation changes. We are all more dependent on our environment and relationships than we want to be. So how do we really choose happiness when we are surrounded by […]

When Emotions Feel Out of Control I think everyone experiences emotional ups and downs. And the hard truth is our emotions control us more than we like to admit. While you may have years of repeating the same reaction, it is possible to establish new pathways in your brain. With practice, you can redirect your […]