Expectations

Expectations

This one seems timely, given where we're at in the year...and, I don't know, history. Let's talk about ​expectations​ today.

Should we raise our expectations? Lower them? Drop them altogether? And where the hell do our expectations come from in the first place?

Yeah...

Our Lying Minds

Our Lying Minds

Good morning, happy Wednesday. ☺️ It's time for a(nother) conversation about thoughts. We circle back to our thinking from time to time around here because it's so dang important.

We tend to glorify thinking in our culture; we definitely consider thinking to be a "higher" power than feeling. But...is it? What are our minds telling us? Is it worth listening to?…

Scare Your Soul w/Scott Simon

Scare Your Soul w/Scott Simon

I have another amazing interview for you this week on ​The Transforming Anxiety Podcast​...Scott Simon is joining me to talk about his book, Scare Your Soul. And this is far more than a book: it's an entire *movement*…

Keep the Bridges, Burn the Boats

Keep the Bridges, Burn the Boats

This week on The Transforming Anxiety Podcast I want to consider a phrase I know you've heard before, don't burn your bridges, alongside a less common idea, burn the boats. It's a fiery mash-up this week. We're going to explore why it's important to ​keep the bridges, burn the boats​

Preemptive Quitting

Preemptive Quitting

This week's episode of ​The Transforming Anxiety​ is literally straight from my heart to yours. We're talking about ​preemptive quitting​ this week. Why? Because this is the sit-down-pay-attention-clear-the-decks talk I had to have with myself recently…

Underneath the Conversation

Underneath the Conversation

Time for some real talk: this week on ​The Transforming Anxiety Podcast​, we're going ​underneath the conversation​...

Y'know how when you're talking with someone, there are the words that are actually being said, the back-and-forth dialogue that is happening out loud...and then there's the inner conversation you're having ABOUT the conversation?

Naming the Things

Naming the Things

Super quick, simple, and powerful practice for you today on ​The Transforming Anxiety Podcast​: we're going to talk about ​naming the things​.

Most of the time, we're lost in our thinking. We're telling stories about what's happening, we're fighting against how we're feeling or doing our damnedest to try to feel something *else*, and we're spinning out over the difference between our current situation vs. what we think should be happening…

The Boat, The Volcano, The Mountaintop, The Tide

The Boat, The Volcano, The Mountaintop, The Tide

This week's ​Transforming Anxiety Podcast​ is all about giving you a handful of tools that you can use to take care of yourself when you're really *in it* with anxiety. We're going to talk about ​the boat, the volcano, the mountaintop, and the tide​…