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New To Meditation? Try These Tiny Stepping Stones From Headspace
While I’ve played around with meditation before, I never really held myself to its committed practice. I’d get excited about it for a few days, cozying up with Meditation Oasis podcasts after dinner,...
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Sloppy And Scattered: This Is Your Brain On Grief
Ever since my dad passed away three months ago, my brain has been busy. Busy, cluttered, and disorganized. I’ve felt so mentally disorganized, in fact, that I’ve had a difficult time writing. (This...
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A Helpful Pamphlet About Heart Disease? There’s Just One Problem.
A few days ago, I received the following letter in the mail from Blue Cross Blue Shield, addressed to my father: Dear Paul, Managing a chronic condition can feel overwhelming. I am here to help! We...
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A Very Sad Hiatus for ‘Panic About Anxiety’
There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just blankly blurt it out as if it doesn’t twist my insides into a million knots. My father died unexpectedly last week. Heart attack, right out of the blue. No...
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Video: Earthquake On Live TV? These Anchors Calmly Own It
Last night before bed, I found myself putzing around on my iPhone on my living room floor. It’s a nightly thing: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit. Rinse and repeat if I’m still not sleepy. But I...
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Do You Feel Like An Impostor? You’re Not Alone!
In my last post, I introduced you to what Dr. Pauline Rose Clance calls the “impostor phenomenon” — that nagging feeling that, despite being perfectly qualified to do something, you just don’t belong....
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Do You Feel Like An Impostor? A Fraud? A Phony?
Do you ever feel like you’re “faking it” — at work, at school, or at home? Like you’re not qualified to be there, but by the grace of chance or luck, you are? And do you feel like one day someone’s...
View ArticleA Panic Attack On Live TV? ABC News Anchor Dan Harris Reflects
[Warning: this video might (obviously) be triggering for those of you with panic disorder. It definitely put me a bit on edge. It does end on a happy note, if that's of any consolation.] Have you ever...
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Adjust Your Posture This Weekend For A More Confident Monday
So, I own a pet bird. (That’s him on the left.) Actually, I hesitate to call my parrotlet a pet. He’s more like a little bird friend — a tiny little feathered dinosaur who talks. He’s a comical little...
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I Hate Quotes About ‘Success’ (Except For This One)
Generic platitudes tend to annoy me. You know the kind I’m talking about — right? Say you’ve just been through a bad breakup. It stings monumentally, and you keep hearing crap like this: “It’ll all...
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Low Blood Sugar And Panic Attacks: How Are They Related?
Suddenly, you feel sort of woozy in an nebulous way. Something feels “off”, but you can’t put your finger on it. Then, your heart starts beating faster, and you feel the need to sit down. Or sleep. Or...
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How To Start Loving Your Unmotivated Self
This Valentine’s Day, I wanted to take a different approach to discussing love on this blog. A Redditor named Ryan from Canada made a post in /r/getmotivated several months back that has really, really...
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Letter To A Panicker Whose World Is Quickly Shrinking
“Just…just do it,” she said, looking me straight in the eye. She wasn’t a Nike spokesperson: She was my therapist, circa 2004, warning me against the dangers of agoraphobia. “Even if you feel...
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Zoloft and Klonopin Sing A Frustrating Lullaby
It’s no big secret or anything. Anxiety meds can make you sleepy. Like, really sleepy. From my bottle of Zoloft, an SSRI used to treat my panic disorder: “May cause drowsiness.” From my bottle of...
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Breathe Easy This Weekend With A Simple Web App
Have you ever noticed your respiration rate increase during periods of heightened anxiety? It’s okay if you have — it’s completely normal and part of the body’s fight-or-flight reaction. But what if...
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Video: Live Longer, Stay Healthier By Changing The Way You View Stress
How you think about stress matters — perhaps more than the stress itself. That’s what Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal says in her super-inspiring TED talk, “How to make stress your...
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Lift The Burden By Changing “Should” To “Want”
There’s a lot of guilt involved in having an anxiety disorder. (If you, reader, have an anxiety disorder, you know exactly what I mean, right?) For the rest of you, I’ll spell it out clearly: we feel...
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Withdrawing From Celexa: Yeah, Um, That Didn’t Really Work
Years ago, before panic attacks became one of my defining characteristics, I decided I wanted to be one of those crunchy mothers-to-be who avoids all medication at all cost. I’d be growing a tiny human...
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This Soothing Video Of Baby’s First Bath Will Calm Your Nerves
It’s the end of a long week, isn’t it? This week’s rap sheet includes sub-zero temperatures, frozen pipes, and a dead car battery. Dearest polar vortex: you’re drunk. Go home. But I’m not here to...
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Feeling Crappy About Winter, Part 2: Grumble Along With Me
Yesterday, I wrote this: a post about how it’s okay to feel crummy sometimes. It’s okay to feel crummy and to write about feeling crummy. In a way, I was responding to commenter Reader547 when s/he...
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