Category: Anxiety

Is Worry a Sin?

I spoke at a church group this weekend on the topic of anxiety and tried to wrestle with this verse in Philippians: “do not worry

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You And Your OCD

I thought of you at the Anxiety Disorders Association conference last weekend. What, you say? Me? Well, yes, in a way, you! At conferences like

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Being Tricked

Learning to treat anxiety is making me a better spiritual director. I didn’t expect that.  Learning David Carbonell’s (an anxiety expert) Panic Trick has been

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Will Ferrell

Last September I went to see the Broadway musical, “The Book of Mormon”.  Before the show started my friend and I noticed that Will Ferrell

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The Enemy of Fulfillment

The enemy of fulfillment is…. Instant gratification… that comes to us primarily through…. I hate to say it, but it’s true…. don’t write me off

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I look better in Idaho

Me modeling my “lake hair” with my kids teasing me behind the camera After returning from my vacation in Idaho, I had a thought that

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Say Yes, Dummy!

The text came from an old, dear friend out of the blue: “My daughter and I are going to Hawaii in 3 weeks, want to

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Whatever Works

It’s been a good parenting week. I got to share a meal in a restaurant with my son before seeing him perform in a jazz

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Take a nap

Well, you did it. Christmas happened; the gifts, the food, the guests, the cheer. Now for that wonderful and sometimes difficult let-down. This year, how

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Self-Care at Every Age

This is a picture of my step-father, Howard, just 3 weeks shy of his 80th birthday, waterskiing. Seeing him ski made us all whoop, cheer,

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Left-Handed Toilet

There’s a left-handed toilet in my new office. Never used one? This is what I experience; I’m sitting there—you know, on the toilet, reaching back

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