Anxiety and Stress Relief Exercises 8 & 9.

Making stress and tension disappear When people perceive and experience stressors they often automatically enlarge them or blow them up out of proportion.  At the same time, people rarely give themselves nearly enough credit. Challenges or problems that may seem insurmountable or too difficult to handle, can be brought down to smaller tasks that can [...]

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Anxiety and Stress Relief Exercises 5, 6 & 7.

Finding and releasing muscle tension for anxiety relief. Muscle tension is often a caused by emotional and mental problems. For example, a lot of pent up anger can manifest itself as chest pain, or tightness around the chest muscles. Chronic neck pain often arises with people who have problems expressing themselves. Tense and pent up [...]

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Anxiety and Stress Relief Exercises 3 & 4.

Anxiety and Stress Relief Techniques Series Exercises 3 & 4. Grounding Techniques for anxiety relief. Anxiety often stems from feeling divided and disorganized. This includes the feeling of being spread all over the place with so many different things to do. The next two exercises will help you gather and center yourself. They will allow [...]

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Anxiety and Stress Relief Exercises 1 & 2.

This post will be the first in a series of posts with anxiety relief techniques. In total I’ll go over 14 exercises you can use to calm your body and mind. Try them all out and go with the ones that work best for you. Before we begin, I’d like to talk a bit about [...]

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Anxiety and Children

Children can experience the same anxiety disorders that adults experience. In fact, because of stress from school, social pressures and extra curricular activities children can be especially vulnerable to developing anxiety disorders. Besides that, there is another type of anxiety children can experience. This is called Separation Anxiety. This occurs when children experience a lot [...]

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety

Cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT is a type therapy that has many applications, including as treatment for anxiety. It’s a practical approach with the focus on problem solving related to dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and thoughts. CBT uses a goal-oriented approach, keeping track of progress and adjusting where necessary. Depending on the therapist, cognitive [...]

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Traumatizing and life threatening events can cause the onset of posttraumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD. People who have witnessed natural disasters, soldiers, rape and assault victims and accident survivors are all people who can potentially develop PTSD. While most people who experience these events will eventually overcome them, there are some who suffer [...]

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

People with OCD experience unwanted and intrusive thoughts they can’t control or get out of their heads. These are the obsessions. They often need to go through specific ritualistic behaviors and routines in order to relieve these obsessions. These are the compulsions. Most people with OCD know that the routines they perform, and their fears are irrational [...]

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Anxiety and Depression

Both anxiety and depression can be debilitating and disruptive by themselves. You can imagine that experiencing both of these disorders can make life especially difficult. Research has shown that anxiety and depression often come together. As many as half of the people diagnosed with depression are also diagnosed with anxiety. The good news is that [...]

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