Why Your Anxiety Feels Worse During Tough News Cycles
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Why Your Anxiety Feels Worse During Tough News Cycles

It’s true. Anxiety really does get worse when you consume too much negative media. But we’re drawn to negative news, for better or for worse. In this blog, you’ll learn about the research supporting this link, potential causes for it, and ways to manage your anxiety levels during challenging new cycles.

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The Overthinking Trap: Why Seeking Certainty Fuels Anxiety
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The Overthinking Trap: Why Seeking Certainty Fuels Anxiety

The brain loves to know things for sure. When we’re faced with uncertainty or unanswered questions, our brain can sometimes respond with overthinking and rumination in hopes that we will find the answer. Instead, we just fuel our anxiety as we dig ourselves deeper and deeper into a hole. This blog explores why we overthink and how to take back control from anxiety.

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Softening the Inner Critic: Practical Tools for Managing Perfectionism
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Softening the Inner Critic: Practical Tools for Managing Perfectionism

Perfectionism may have developed to help you stay on track and protect you from failure, but if you’re reading this, I have a sneaky suspicion that lately, your perfectionism has been doing more harm than good. In this blog post, you’ll learn about what perfectionism looks like, and develop some practical tools to help you reclaim your control from perfectionism.

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How to support a teenager with anxiety
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How to support a teenager with anxiety

Watching your child struggle and not knowing how to help can be really hard. With the right tools, you can help them learn to manage anxiety and uncertainty, feel more empowered, and become more resilient to life’s challenges.

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What are thinking traps?
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What are thinking traps?

Thoughts pop into our mind all the time, but what happens if those thoughts are negative or unhelpful? Thinking traps are unhelpful and inaccurate automatic thoughts that get in the way and prevent us from taking risks, facing new challenges, and being our best selves.

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CBT for Anxiety
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CBT for Anxiety

A brief overview of how Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) supports individuals with anxiety.

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