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How to Break the Anxiety- Fear-Avoidance Cycle
we naturally tend to make decisions about our daily use of time that prioritise anxiety-avoidance instead. Procrastination, distraction, commitment-phobia, clearing the decks and taking on too many projects at once are all ways of trying to maintain the illusion that you’re in charge of things. In a subtler way, so too is compulsive worrying, which
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When we are asked to articulate our concerns, it forces us to become conscious of them. This can transform anxiety, which tends to be generalized, into fears, which are more specific. What is interesting about the process, and we’ve seen this play out time and again in a variety of contexts, is that when we become specific about a fear, it either e
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