Are you experiencing the compounding effect of anxiety and stress?

Does it seem like it's getting heavier than usual?

You aren't alone!

If you're like me, your mind drifts frequently to the "what if..."

And, let's face it... with the pandemic, election-related activities, and our own personal and professional challenges... we have a lot of material to work with.

It may seem that considering the "what if's" is a useful tactic for preparing in advance for what might come next.

MIGHT.

Truth is, we don't know.

We have never known.

Not knowing was way more comfortable when the state of the world wasn't so visibly uncertain.

See, when it wasn't so visible, and regularly discussed, we just didn't spend a lot of time thinking about it.

We also didn't spend a lot of time planning for the next wave of it.

Ignorance was bliss...

The bliss didn't come from the world actually being more certain before all of this...

... it came from what we believed about the certainty of the world at that time.

Our beliefs have changed.

Our experience has changed.

Our focus has shifted, and we are now acutely aware of many things our minds simply filtered out of our awareness before.

The result: All these extra thoughts are creating extra emotion.

Unfortunately, that extra emotion is often in the form of anxiety, stress, fear, anger, etc.

Not useful.

In this episode, I share a three-letter hack for interrupting the cycle of anxiety and stress many of us are trapped in.

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