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When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety, Healthy Thinking, Mindfulness, Worry April 9, 2025April 9, 2025No Comments

When Following Your Intuition is Bad Advice: I recently saw a post on Instagram that said something like this: “Follow your gut. Trust your intuition. If something feels wrong, it is wrong.” Well-intended advice, I’m sure. I suppose there’s something to it—and there are definitely times when we might indeed “go with our gut.” More than a handful of times since starting a business, I’ve begun some sort of professional business relationship with someone where …

Unmasking: How Masking Can Lead to the Cycle of Anxiety and Affect your Self-Esteem

by Summer SchmidtAnxiety, Children Therapy, Confidence, Neurodiversity, Teenage April 10, 2023April 10, 2023No Comments

This post was a submission by Alexis Lynch, Licensed Mental Health Counselor. See below for information on how to get scheduled with her for individual or couples work. You’re sitting in the living room, blanket over your head, pretending to be batman, making fun noises that go along with being a superhero in Gotham, and repeating, “I’m Batman.” From across the house you hear, “Why do you insist on making so much noise? Can’t you …

Understanding Anxiety, Treatment for it, and how to Support: A Resource for Family and Friends

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety November 22, 2021November 23, 2021No Comments

If you’re reading this it’s probably because someone you know and care about has been struggling with some kind of disordered anxiety. Perhaps they’re in therapy – or are considering therapy – and you’re wanting to better understand what’s going on, how therapy can help, and how you can help. Disordered anxiety goes above and beyond the “normal” anxiety we all experience from time to time and can be really challenging (in the most extreme …

Video: 4 Steps for Dealing with Panic

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety June 17, 2021June 20, 2021No Comments

In this video, you’ll learn 4 easy steps for dealing with Panic attacks while they are happening. You’ll find that the best approach is often to “float” with your anxiety while taking slow, measured breaths. Anxiety can be counterintuitive. When we resist the anxiety, avoid situations that cause anxiety, or run away when panic symptoms begin, we unknowingly reinforce the anxious response and make things worse. We decrease the fight/flight/freeze response by teaching our brains …

Man touches his temples clearly struggling with anxiety

Your All-Things-Anxiety Resource

by Joel SchmidtAnxiety March 30, 2021October 25, 2024No Comments

Struggling with anxiety? This page is an “all-things-anxiety” resource. We’ll discuss types of anxiety, causes of anxiety, treatments for anxiety, and provide a few quick and helpful strategies and resources for anxiety. What Anxiety is To start with – EVERYBODY deals with anxiety. Anxiety is your body’s natural response to stress. Anxiety is typically future-oriented and is associated with feelings of fear, worry, uneasiness, or dread. Although we typically frame “anxiety” as a bad thing, …