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Failure IS an Option: On Why I Quit #NaBloPoMo
Back in February, I resolved to write a blog post every single day for the entire month. I got the idea from BlogHer.com and I was excited about the idea for the first week. Thrilled, in fact. I wrote...
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April is National Poetry Month: Share Your Anxiety-Related Poems
It’s hard to believe that April is here already, isn’t it? Isn’t time tricky? Surely I was just lamenting the onset of winter and grumbling about how the lack of sunlight contributes to my anxiety. And...
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The Slow Eating Challenge: How to Mindfully Eat a Single Raisin
Grad school was a rough time for me. Not only were my classes pretty demanding, but I also had a part-time assistantship supervising five undergraduate RA’s (Resident Assistants). Then, of course, I...
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Join Us! Blog About Mental Health on Wednesday
On May 16th, the American Psychological Association is hosting this year’s Mental Health Month Blog Party. Pssst — that’s tomorrow! (Or today, depending on what time you stumbled upon this post.)...
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Video: Why Do I Blog About (My Own) Mental Health? #mhblogday
As part of the American Psychological Association’s Mental Health Month Blog Party, I’ve decided to create my first video blog post. Now, let me qualify the word “first”: for the past few months, I...
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Poll: What’s Your Relationship Like With Your Anxiety Disorder?
Is it ever possible to happily embrace your anxiety disorder? I think about this question often. I mean, we tend to frame our disorders with war-based terminology: I’m battling agoraphobia. John is...
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Where Did My Anxiety Go? I Can’t Find It Anywhere!
On Sunday, I took a 17-mile drive through the mountains into unknown territory. Why? Because. Because I had a car, a full tank of gas…and no anxiety. That’s right: virtually no anxiety. If you’re a...
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My Mind is Blank and So Is This Blog Post
Okay, I fibbed a little bit. The blog post isn’t technically blank. There are words and sentences and stuff, but that’s about it. It’s hard to fill anything with great meaning when you’re placidly...
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‘Major Scaled’: Dipping Your iPod in Liquid Prozac
Here’s something fun for a Sunday afternoon. I stumbled across this song yesterday, and now I can’t stop listening to it. I’ve heard REM’s “Losing My Religion” about a million times before, and...
View ArticleMy TEDx Talk: Anxiety — Hibernate, Adapt, or Migrate?
Awhile back, I wrote about how nervous I was to speak at my local TEDx event in Williamsport, PA. I was pretty scared. Would I get lightheaded? Would I pass out? What if I couldn’t remember anything I...
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Win Wednesday: Share Your Anxiety-Related “Wins”!
We all know how difficult anxiety disorders are. We all know how easy it is to focus on the negatives: the endless setbacks, the embarrassment, and the ever-present triggers. It’s exhausting, isn’t it?...
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Our First #WinWednesday: How’d You Overcome Anxiety This Week?
(Note: We spend so much time dwelling on the debilitating effects of our anxiety disorders, don’t we? I sure as hell do. Why not devote an entire day to focusing on our accomplishments [instead of our...
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Explaining Those Inexplicable “Good” Days
There I was, driving on US-15, blasting the radio. It was around noon, and my eyes felt wide and my chest felt warm. And soft. And relaxed. I felt good. Like, pre-panic disorder good. Calm as a Hindu...
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And The Randomly-Selected Winner Of ‘ADHD According to Zoë’ Is…
…commenter “CCZ”! She writes this about her experience with ADHD: I would love a copy! My husband has ADHD, my 11year old son was just diagnosed, and I have ADD! We are a family full. In addition I...
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Help! My Cold Meds Make Me Anxious. What ELSE Can I Do?
Feeling sick? You’re probably not alone. It’s that sneez-y, cough-y, mucus-y time of year. Delicious! So, if you’re anything like me, you have an anxiety disorder and you hate being sick. In fact,...
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This Soothing Video Of Baby’s First Bath Will Calm Your Nerves
It’s the end of a long week, isn’t it? This week’s rap sheet includes sub-zero temperatures, frozen pipes, and a dead car battery. Dearest polar vortex: you’re drunk. Go home. But I’m not here to...
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Video: Live Longer, Stay Healthier By Changing The Way You View Stress
How you think about stress matters — perhaps more than the stress itself. That’s what Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal says in her super-inspiring TED talk, “How to make stress your...
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Breathe Easy This Weekend With A Simple Web App
Have you ever noticed your respiration rate increase during periods of heightened anxiety? It’s okay if you have — it’s completely normal and part of the body’s fight-or-flight reaction. But what if...
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How To Start Loving Your Unmotivated Self
This Valentine’s Day, I wanted to take a different approach to discussing love on this blog. A Redditor named Ryan from Canada made a post in /r/getmotivated several months back that has really, really...
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I Hate Quotes About ‘Success’ (Except For This One)
Generic platitudes tend to annoy me. You know the kind I’m talking about — right? Say you’ve just been through a bad breakup. It stings monumentally, and you keep hearing crap like this: “It’ll all...
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