Certainly, in our era, we live in the midst of a wide range of anxiety-provoking factors. There are economic issues, environmental issues, educational issues, social and technological change, issues concerning health -- a multitude. Yet the profoundest forms of anxiety are connected to our sense…
Freedom is a word often heard in counselling for anxiety; it's also a key concept in /a-midlife-transition. People who are really gripped by anxiety want nothing more than to be free of it. We all deeply yearn for freedom; but can we really tolerate having…
Depth case studies concerns self-acceptance, and counselling for anxiety often emphasizes that we are "enough" to deal with the situations of our lives. So, what does it mean to to feel that we are "enough"? How do we gain that level of self acceptance?
We are all know from our experience of anxiety that we are not really in the present when gripped by an anxious state. Psychologically, anxiety pulls us into the past or the future -- and possibly both.
Effective counselling for anxiety involves understanding its root causes, and /a-midlife-transition gives us insight into the basis of anxiety underlying the conscious mind. Using Jung's characteristic metaphor of emotion or affect as energy, we might view anxiety as energy that doesn't know where, or how,…