If you are having a panic attack, you experience a sudden and intense surge of fear and discomfort. Your body is flooded with adrenaline. Your heart races, you feel weak or dizzy, and you may feel tingling or numbness in your fingers or hands. You feel sweaty, you have chills, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and a sense of loss of control. This is accompanied by the fear of …
Anxiety
Some Of My Favorite Tools For Help With Anxiety
I had a couple of therapy sessions last week with clients who were having very stressful weeks and asking for tools to work with anxiety between sessions. This gave me the opportunity to think about some of my favorite “anxiety busting” tools, and here is my opportunity for me to share them with you. Diffusion It’s easy to get caught up in scary thoughts about the future. …
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5 Tools For Coping With Stress
Stress can be defined as strain or pressure. It is part of all of our lives. Stress can be seen as positive and healthy when it challenges us and helps us better our performance and improve ourselves. It can help us to learn and to grow. Excessive stress, however, depresses the immune systems and leads to problems with anxiety and other negative emotions. Here are 5 hints for …