Practice Makes Peace
Evidence based practices to take back your mind, regulate your emotions, and live your magical life.
What If 80% of Anxiety is Hidden Codependency
Anxiety is a natural response to threat.
Codependency is when you overly rely on others to get your emotional needs met: The need to feel loved, valuable, good enough, or calm.
If the threat at the root of your anxiety is other people’s opnions, your anxiety might actually be codependency.
Read for the 3 statements to begin to reclaim your peace.
The Opposite of Codependent is NOT Independent
Codependence is defined as one person relying on another for their emotional or physical well-being. I was a professional eggshell-walker. Tiptoeing around busy streets, afraid of triggering my mom’s PTSD. Tiptoeing around my dad, afraid of triggering his terror.
Releasing Empathic Anxiety: 4 Simple Strategies
Your anxiety might have less to do with your past than you think.
Empathic anxiety is when we are feeling someone else's feelings (often unconsciously) and internalizing them as our own. Empaths can feel the feelings of others, often internalizing them to the point that they can’t distinguish their own emotions from someone else’s emotion.