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What Is Anxiety And How To Get Past It

Anxiety is more than just feeling stressed or worried. It can range from mild, fleeting worries to severe, debilitating fear. The physiological response to anxiety involves the “fight or flight” system, releasing adrenaline that prepares the body to respond to threats. This can lead to symptoms like a racing heart, sweating, and rapid breathing. Many…

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How To Reach Out to a Therapist For Help: 5 Easy Steps (With Examples)

How To Initiate Contact with aTherapist Effectively Deciding to reach out to a therapist can be a profound turning point for many people. But what comes next? Many people decide to visit a therapist, find a few with the right qualifications to help, and then struggle with what to say during that first contact.  Learning…

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What Are Signs Of An Anxiety Attack?

Whether you’ve struggled with anxiety attacks your whole life or are experiencing them for the first time, it’s important to understand what happens to your body during an attack so you can control it. Unlike a panic attack, anxiety attacks build slowly over time, frequently in response to triggers. These are usually an event or circumstance that kicks off the ‘anxiety’ response.

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How to Stop Nightmares

Many people struggle to determine how to stop nightmares because sleep is precious and nightmares can be debilitating, impacting work, relationships and physical health.  You wake up confused, scared or sad, and to top it off, it can be hard to fall back asleep afterwards.  What causes these dreaded sleep interruptions?  The causes can be…

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Tips to Manage Stress in the Workplace

Tips to Manage Stress in the Workplace Today’s executives and employees are struggling like never before to manage stress that results from increased competition and productivity pressure.  Often in today’s workplace, employers expect higher productivity and longer work hours which has led many into feelings of depression and anxiety. Recent research findings show that the…