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Just Take a Chance: The Importance of Facing Your Fears
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you…
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How to Combat Anxiety at Work By Refocusing Your Attention on God
Unless your job is doing absolutely nothing, you are sure to experience some level of anxiety from time to time. Maybe you have a presentation, work meeting, a tight deadline, unending emails, toxic boss or coworkers, uncertain outcomes, or uncertain job security. Whatever the case may be, anxiety originating from…
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Anxiety Part 3: So Now What? Using Our Understanding of Anxiety to Develop a Personalized Plan
Before we can address any problem we first need to understand it. That’s what Anxiety Part 1 and Part 2 tried to do. In Part 1, we looked at the difference between stress and anxiety. In part two we talked about anxiety developing from either a cumulation of mini-traumas or…
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Anxiety Part 1: Is it Stress or Anxiety? Why You Should Know the Difference
If you were to look up the words stress and anxiety in the dictionary, you’ll find two different definitions. However, we tend to clump these words into the same category. We think of them as having the same symptoms. And sometimes use them interchangeably or as an inseparable pair: stress…