{"id":746,"date":"2009-03-06T23:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T03:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/03\/06\/anxiety-doesnt-help\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T03:50:03","slug":"anxiety-doesnt-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety Doesn&#8217;t Help."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety is often our first reaction to conflict, problems, or even our own fears.\u00c2\u00a0 In those moments, detaching and getting peaceful may seem disloyal or apathetic.\u00c2\u00a0 We think: If I really care, I&#8217;ll worry; if this is really important to me, I must stay upset.\u00c2\u00a0 We convince ourselves that outcomes will be positively affected by the amount of time we spend worrying.<\/p>\n<p>Our best problem-solving resource is peace.\u00c2\u00a0 Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.\u00c2\u00a0 Often, fear and anxiety block solutions.\u00c2\u00a0 Anxiety gives power to the problem, not the solution.\u00c2\u00a0 It does not help to harbor turmoil.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>It does not help.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Melody Beattie, <em>The Language of Letting Go, <\/em>p. 65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxiety is often our first reaction to conflict, problems, or even our own fears.\u00c2\u00a0 In those moments, detaching and getting peaceful may seem disloyal or apathetic.\u00c2\u00a0 We think: If I really care, I&#8217;ll worry; if this is really important to me, I must stay upset.\u00c2\u00a0 We convince ourselves that outcomes will be positively affected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}