anxiety

Yes & No

Yes & No

Most of the time, when we're faced with something we don't like or don't want it looks like this: NOOOOOOO!

And instead of pausing to respond to _______ (fill in the blank with "snarky teenager," or, "demanding boss," or, "inner feeling of dread") we react by resisting, avoiding, and shutting down…

Using Focus to Ease Anxiety

Using Focus to Ease Anxiety

Over here, we're officially into the final quarter of our virtual school year (omg we made it) + the boys' golf season started this week (yay, outdoors!) + we're tentatively making summer vacation plans (hello Chicago and Devils Den Park)...the hope is STRONG for a post-pandemic world in the McCormick household!…

Digital Spring Cleaning

Digital Spring Cleaning

It's springtime, which means spring cleaning. And since we focus on all things anxiety around here, I thought I'd bring the 2 together in an episode all about digital spring cleaning.

Because: how you interact with your devices could very well be playing a part in how anxious you're feeling on the regular…

Talk to Yourself & Mean It

Talk to Yourself & Mean It

We talk to ourselves all day, every day. Have you noticed? That nonstop commentator in our minds that has an opinion about *all the things*. It's like the ticker tape that runs along the bottom of news shows...but instead of headlines and weather updates, it's full of ideas and judgments…

Participate in Your Wellbeing

Participate in Your Wellbeing

I am SO happy to be back with you this week. Our family has been completely down and out with COVID and it was *not fun* but we are absolutely among the lucky ones and are, slowly but surely, recovering.

And I don't even want to talk about COVID this week, lol. I want to get back to the good stuff we do around here on the regular!…

100 Episodes of the Podcast!

100 Episodes of the Podcast!

What, what?! Today marks 100 episodes of The Transforming Anxiety Podcast!

I could say cliche things like, "I can't believe it," or, "I wasn't envisioning the 100th episode when I started the podcast" buuuuut I CAN believe it and I have totally been envisioning hundreds of episodes of the podcast

Discomfort & Growth

Discomfort & Growth

We've all just lived through a *highly* uncomfortable time. Still are, in fact. 2020 proved to be quite the crash course in discomfort...

And since we don't know what we don't know about 2021, I thought now would be a good time to talk about discomfort and growth

What's the Anxiety Impulse?

What's the Anxiety Impulse?

Nearing the end of the year that we've gone through has me returning to the basics in a lot of ways: simple meals, lots of walking and no-frills yoga, and re-watching classic holiday movies for the hundredth time.

And I wanted to do something similar here on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast this week and get back to the basics by considering: where does this whole anxiety experience come from, anyway? What's the impulse for anxiety?…

Uncertainty, Canceling, & Change

Uncertainty, Canceling, & Change

Wow. What a year last week was, huh? (Is that joke getting old yet?? Haha...)

2020 keeps piling on the intensity for sure. And I want to take a few minutes this week and talk with you about uncertainty, canceling, and change. Because it seems as if a lot of us are stuck in one gear of 2020-intensity and could benefit from hitting the *pause* button and coming up for air to remind ourselves what's what…