Caroline Cavanagh

Training your anxiety like a dog | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Specialist

4 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh uses training her dog Juno to sit, lie down, and roll over as an analogy for managing anxiety. Like teaching a dog new behaviors step by step, you build on what you already know to gradually expand what you can handle.

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This is Juno. Juno spent a lot of time in the queue for the cute genes, didn't quite make it into the queue for intelligence. So the first thing I taught Juno was to sit. It took a while. But from sit, she then moved on to learning to lay down relatively quickly. From laying down, She could flop on her side quicker. And from there, rolling over came really quickly. Her mind, even as a really stupid dog, was using the experience and learning she'd already gained to make the next step easier. We can all do the same.

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