How to reduce anxiety by building connections

10 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh explains how building diverse social connections reduces anxiety and strengthens mental resilience. She suggests reconnecting with people from your past and joining organizations, with a downloadable guide available on her website.

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In the area of mental health, there's now a general consensus that one of the things that contributes hugely to mental resilience is the amount of connections that you have. It's almost the opposite to loneliness. So this is something that you can now proactively do if you're feeling anxious or struggling with your mental health. Is start to make more connections with the outside world, whether it's by connecting with people that you've lost touch with, joining organisations, and the wider the variety, the more connected you are, the more that will help your mental resilience. There's a little handout on my website carolinecavanagh.co.uk that can help you with this, so please download it. And start thinking about how, by being more connected, you can feel mentally stronger too.