by Carla | Jan 11, 2023 | Anxiety & Worry, Shifting Perspective
IF (OR WHEN) THE THING YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT ACTUALLY HAPPENS, you will deal with it – just as you have dealt with all the things that have happened in your life before – whether it came out of left field or whether you had worried that it might happen....
by Carla | Oct 30, 2022 | Anxiety & Worry, Uncategorized
WHAT DOES THE WORD ‘WORRY’ MEAN TO YOU? How does it differ from ‘anxiety’ or ‘thinking’ or ‘rumination’? Sure there are formal definitions, but we all have slightly different ideas of what each of these words mean. I had a conversation with my partner the other day,...
by Carla | Oct 30, 2022 | Anxiety & Worry
For those of us who get caught up in WORRYING WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT BE THINKING ABOUT US – whether we’re saying the right things, sounding smart or clever enough, whether we’re doing enough, looking attractive or presentable or respectable enough or whether we...
by Carla | Oct 26, 2022 | Anxiety & Worry, Self-Worth & Self-Esteem
WHEN SOMETHING HAS BEEN IN OUR MIDST FOR QUITE SOME TIME – perhaps something we’ve thought about doing but kept pushing to the side, or maybe an opportunity right under our nose that we hadn’t noticed or seemed too difficult – on which we only now feel...
by Carla | Oct 9, 2022 | Anxiety & Worry, Getting Through Difficult Experiences
Remember that BEFORE YOU MADE THE MISTAKE: ~ you didn’t know it wouldn’t work, ~ you didn’t know it would end up the way it did, ~ you didn’t intend for it to happen as it did, ~ you didn’t know the outcome would be as it was. You learned and now you know. You might...
by Carla | Oct 9, 2022 | Anxiety & Worry, Self-Worth & Self-Esteem
ANY OF US CAN GET OVERLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT BE THINKING ABOUT US. But here are a few things to consider: ~ We are only guessing at what they think. We don’t, we can’t, we never – really know what others truly think about us. Even if they...
