Can You Actually Define Anxiety?

I ask almost every new client the same question in our first session: can you define anxiety?

Around 99% can't. Not because they're not intelligent — some of the most capable people I work with simply can't put words to it.

That matters. 

It's pretty much impossible to solve something you can't name.

Here's the simple version.

Anxiety is your brain's ancient threat system doing its job — scanning for danger, weighing the bad more heavily than the good, and reacting before your thinking mind has caught up. It isn't a personal failing. It's a reptilian brain, a negatively biased brain, and — underneath it all — a scared brain, doing exactly what brains are built to do.

The shift happens the moment you stop treating anxiety as a mystery to fight and start treating it as a system to understand.

Try this today

Next time anxiety shows up, instead of asking "what's wrong with me?", try asking "what is my brain trying to protect me from right now?" 

Just naming it starts to change it.

You don't need to become a different person. You need to understand the one you already are.

Want to explore how this shows up in your life? 

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Working with your mind, 

Dr. Sharyn