Anxiety is one of the most common complaints in therapy. Problem anxiety robs people of their energy and joy. Fortunately, anxiety is highly treatable. Learn four ways to begin calming anxiety today.

Low self-confidence is common and effects everything we think, feel, and do. Understanding what creates and maintains self-confidence issues leads to insight and change. Effective treatment for anxiety can help.

Shame is a feeling of inadequacy or “brokenness.” Everyone experiences shame at some level. It doesn’t equal failure. Facing shame is necessary for our mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

Anxiety and self-worth are directly related. Whatever reflections we got as children determine what we think of ourselves and how we learn to access our self-worth. If we learned to access it from the outside in, we feel worth based on what we do, have, or look like. This fuels chronic anxiety.

Anxiety fuels self-doubt, automatic negative thoughts, ruminations, worries, conflict, arguments, affairs and divorce. Anxiety is universal. It drives our thinking and behavior. Understanding the relationship between your emotional system and your thinking brain is the key to effective anxiety treatment.