Caroline Cavanagh

Train Your Anxiety Like Your Dog | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

31 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh compares anxiety to a dog that can be trained. A well-trained police dog protects when needed; a chaotic terrier just bites and runs wild. The difference is discipline, and anxiety works the same way.

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I love my dogs. I actually really love my anxiety as well, because I know anxiety in my case is very much like a well-trained police dog. It's by my side most of the time, I don't even need it. However, if there is something scary happens, I've got something that's going to help me. What I don't want is a nasty yappy little terrier thing that just goes around doing whatever it wants to do and biting things. And out-of-control anxiety is just like a terrier. Train your anxiety like your dog.

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