Understanding Anxiety
What happens when anxiety arrives? This series explores anxiety from different perspectives – from what happens in the body, to the meaning of avoidance, to the question of what anxiety is actually trying to tell us.
Understanding anxiety
Anxiety in the Body: What Actually Happens?
What happens in your body when anxiety hits? Polyvagal Theory, Window of Tolerance and Somatic Experiencing – why your nervous system is not the enemy, but a protective mechanism that has been working for millennia.
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Your Fear Has a Voice: What IFS Reveals About the Parts That Protect You
What if your anxiety is not the enemy, but a part of you trying to protect you? Internal Family Systems, the Red Forest of Chernobyl, and the radical idea that your inner critic, your avoidance, and your pain all serve a purpose.
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Anxiety Is a Signal: Avoidance, Confrontation, and the Bridge Between
Why avoidance works instantly yet carries a cost, what happens in your brain during a confrontation – and why anxiety is not your enemy, but points to what matters to you.
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Without a Why, You Can't Face Your Fear: What Viktor Frankl Understood About Suffering
Hope is built on meaning – and meaning can be found even in suffering. Why positive affect is no foundation, what Frankl's double uniqueness means, and which question life asks of us.
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Fear Is a Compass: What Jung Can Teach Us About Anxiety
The hero myth, the shadow, and individuation: why the things we shrink from often point in the direction where growth is waiting – and why none of it is about getting stronger.
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