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Anxiety Anxiety is a natural emotion, it’s easy to feel when your anxiety is being triggered. Some people’s telltale signs are fast breathing, racing thoughts, or an elevated heart rate. Many people find, especially in these uncertain times that uneasiness and worry are escalating and interfering with their lives and peace of mind. There is a complicated process going on in the brain when anxiety escalates. As you become nervous and worry sets in, your brain’s primitive fight or flight response is triggered and stress hormones flood your body. The purpose of this ancient automatic response is to give you … Read more…

What is anxiety? Anxiety is one of your body and brain’s survival mechanisms. The emotion and discomfort of anxious feelings helped primitive man notice impending danger and flee from it and avoid taking dangerous risks. Modern people are not often in physical danger in the same way as primitive man was and we experience chronic stress and social risks rather than attacking lions and bears. Anxiety is not the key to human survival like it used to be and can cause problems at work or in relationships. What are the signs of anxiety? The following is an inventory of anxiety … Read more…

This summer has been too short for many students to recover from the upheaval of last school year and most are feeling disappointed that we are not going to get the September that we were promised. In July, the vaccinated were going maskless and we were told that we could have Fourth of July picnics. Now, right before school starts, we are back to wearing our masks because of the Delta Variant. Ugly battles between parents and teachers, politicians, and principals about mask and vaccine mandates are all over the news. We were all hoping that they would not have … Read more…