Making Uncertainty Your Friend
Current research explains how our nervous system responds to uncertainty and offers ways to reduce the anxiety and stress of not knowing.
Catastrophes, Real or Imagined? How to help our minds tell the difference
How to help our minds prepare for catastrophes, but not get overwhelmed by catastrophic thinking.
Facing the Tiger: Welcoming Anxiety’s Fierce Wisdom
What if, instead of trying to shun or control our anxiety, we befriended it?
How to Find Hope in Turbulent Times
To sustain hope when the odds are against us, we must look beyond self-determination and self-improvement to what I call the "daily miraculous."
Worried About Safety? Join the Club
When do you feel safe? In this anxious time, I take an informal survey of the many things that make us feel safe and unsafe.
Earth, Sky, Star, Moon: Bringing Nature Inside Yourself
Environments can increase or reduce our stress and anxiety. “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.” —E. O. Wilson