Category: Anxiety
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Beating Holiday Stress: Avoiding Disappointments
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Holiday Stress seems bigger than ever this year. Here are some great tips to beat disappointment and keep expectations under control.
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Puttering Around with Perfectionism
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Procrastination is a reflection of self-rejection, anxiety and stress and often involves procrastination. Why not strive for ‘imperfection” for a change!
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Rewriting the Messages of Childhood
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Stories about Wendy Wasserstein and her family help us understand how the onslaught of childhood rejection messages affected the woman she grew into. And here are more stories to illustrate how childhood messages may have affected you and your work and personal relationships.
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Reunions and Reconnections – Exhilerating and Exhausting
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Reunions with family, friends, and places can be exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. Here are some take-aways with a sprinkling of visual images, gratitude and appreciation.
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Self-Sabotage – The Gremlin That Ruins Relationships and Careers
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What propels public figures (or the rest of us for that matter) to engage in risky, self-destructive, self-imploding behavior? What role does Self-Sabotage play?
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Conquering Ambivalence – Getting Out of That Stuck Place
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Ambivalence is the clash between the voice of confidence and the voice of doubt. It’s the presence of simultaneous, conflicting, and/or competing thoughts, feelings or wishes. Here are ideas on what it is, where it comes from and tips on how to tame it.
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What’s Going to Happen to Me? Facing and Overcoming Fear
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Fear is in the air and it’s contagious and debilitating. Fear brings up helplessness, uncertainty, worry, apprehension and anxiety. Put fear in perspective and get it under control by understanding how and why you are affected by outside events and what steps you can take to overcome the fear.
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Outraged, Enraged, Air Raged
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Air rage boils down to someone taking something personally. Like road rage, air rage is an out of control reaction to feeling wronged, slighted, or intruded upon. When someone invades our personal space, we feel disrespected. We take it personally. The events regarding the Jet Blue flight attendant and passenger are good examples of this.