Will Humphreys says anxiety isn't weakness: it signals you care deeply about something, or that you should set boundaries. Either approach it inch by inch with small steps, or remove the stressful thing entirely.
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What if I was to tell you that anxiety was actually a superpower? You know, so often we judge anxiety as this negative feeling that comes from people being weak instead of what it really is, an indication that we either care about something a great deal, or we should be avoiding the thing that we're thinking about. So oftentimes, if it's something that in the end, I know will benefit me, and I have a lot of anxiety, I force myself to do little bits at a time, inch by inch. It's a cinch. Yard by yard. It's hard to get that thing comfortable within my life. Other times, if I can see it's not useful and I have anxiety, it means I probably shouldn't be dealing with that thing in the first place and set a boundary to keep it out of my life.