tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post2615096776127932660..comments2023-11-16T07:45:18.833-07:00Comments on The Reality of Anxiety: Is it possible to LOVE your Anxiety?Aiméehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915969048532920780noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-80934589327247989692010-02-10T15:45:18.805-07:002010-02-10T15:45:18.805-07:00Is it strange that reading this made me a bit gidd...Is it strange that reading this made me a bit giddy with hope? Wow, the idea of embracing my anxiety instead of shoving it away constantly is novel to me. Just reading this made me feel a bit better. Anxiety is probably my oldest friend and part of me loves it, nurtures it and wants it around. So maybe I can keep it around but I don't always have to pay it so much attention.ShanMachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16975220360709334026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-5618706899459944822009-10-07T11:41:09.824-06:002009-10-07T11:41:09.824-06:00This is a terrific post. Thanks for posting it.This is a terrific post. Thanks for posting it.HippieLawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00932119960282786983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-26387072897703273522009-09-20T23:02:46.286-06:002009-09-20T23:02:46.286-06:00Hi Aimee & all,
Thanks for posting my post on...Hi Aimee & all,<br /><br />Thanks for posting my post on "What are you willing to risk?" It really is a cool concept - using paradox to work with anxiety and actually asking your anxiety to make it worse (when inside we just want to make it go away!). I highly recommend Reid Wilson's book "Facing Panic" & his weekend workshop. The weekend is not the cure all for anxiety, but a good jumping off point. I'm so glad it was helpful & it's nice to make this connection! :)<br /><br />Messymama - you can even do the "bring it on" approach just with your anxious thoughts at first if imagining that practice makes you anxious. Maybe take 20 minutes a day, imagine asking your anxiety to give you it's best shot, and when it does, imagine you asking for more. Then, try bringing it on with your least frightening situations and work your way up. I'd love to know how it goes. One of my favorite phrases to write on coping cards is "Stir up trouble for yourself". Take care!Anxiety Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02564746428519705432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-70987321405804889612009-09-20T19:26:20.082-06:002009-09-20T19:26:20.082-06:00Great info on anxiety, it has been difficult for m...Great info on anxiety, it has been difficult for me to really get moving on addressing my problem, I was reading about the secondary benifit of weight grain on <br /><a href="http://ebtnews.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Emotional Brain Training News</a>, wonder if it is the same with anxiety. <br /><br />Thanks for your words!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12476979368087485663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-53727571791049780572009-09-20T19:12:18.615-06:002009-09-20T19:12:18.615-06:00This reminds me of a week where I was having proba...This reminds me of a week where I was having probably the worst anxiety of my life. I went to my counselor and he suggested something that sounded absolutely crazy at the time. I'm sitting there with him and my wife (who came this time to see if there was anything she could do to help) and he had me work my anxiety up to as much as I could. <br /><br />After this he give me the bad news. Ha. He said he wanted me to spend the next week doing everything I could do make my anxiety the worst I could. I realized quickly in those next few days that trying to make your anxiety worse will initially suck, but give you this sense of power over the anxiety which is just amazing.<br /><br />Going in the next week was great, he had a pretty big smile on his face when I came in because he already knew what I had learned. There are times when I revert to letting the anxiety control and scare me, but those few days really changed my fight.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07559344715459227624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-40283897333214429222009-09-18T09:30:03.583-06:002009-09-18T09:30:03.583-06:00thank you that was an awesome post. I'm happy ...thank you that was an awesome post. I'm happy to come accoross this blog. I'm learning a lot more about my anxiety and how to cope with it. My anxiety just started a few months ago when i suffered a miscarriage and having surgery after the miscarriage. I'm still learning more about it so i'll be sure come visit your blog again to read and learn more about anxiety and how to cope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-79838984573743159002009-09-17T19:19:14.749-06:002009-09-17T19:19:14.749-06:00I am all about purposefully triggering my anxiety!...I am all about purposefully triggering my anxiety!!<br /><br /><br /><br />Bloggerwithocd just posted about what OCD is like from her husband's perspective at www.itsmewithocd.blogspot.com.Blogger with Ocdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05066595428618590208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9147889412798634304.post-36225605396383058272009-09-17T12:06:13.768-06:002009-09-17T12:06:13.768-06:00Does the fact that just IMAGINING doing any of thi...Does the fact that just IMAGINING doing any of this totally freaked me out, mean anything? lol. I need to turn this over in my mind a while longer but so far, I totally agree with what she's saying.<br /><br />I have noticed so much that the less I fight the anxiety, the quicker it goes away. I'm thinking that welcoming it, and looking for opportunity to encourage it, would really work...I don't want it to always be lurking in the back of my mind as something that could show up at any time and take me by surprise. That worry alone keeps me from doing certain things. If I was looking for it, and wanting it, it wouldn't be the enemy anymore...<br /><br />Okay, off to ponder. Thanks for th epost!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com