The Anxiety Handbook

Every little action that you do today can make a difference in how you feel tomorrow.

When the caterpillar says, “This is the end,” the butterfly says, “This is the beginning.”

one of the easiest ways to develop an anxiety disorder.

The many advantages gained from this technique include better control of calories, carbs, and portions; less chance of over-fullness and becoming tired from needing to digest a large meal (the tiredness is called “postprandial narcosis”)

Repressing or denying a feeling frequently makes it worse.

It’s not what you feel but what you do about it that makes the difference.

If at any age you experienced ridicule for expressing an emotion, there is a strong likelihood that you would resist sharing your emotions with anyone in the future.

Eliminating the word but from your vocabulary can help fight this tendency to disqualify the positive.

events become more threatening because we choose to give little value to positive interpretations of a situation

When you have “all or nothing” thoughts, you rigidly subscribe to laws, rules, or circumstances, which in turn makes exceptions feel like failures.