Do you remember the 1990’s show Fear Factor? Pairs or couples were presented with traumatic situations that involved their worst fears. These included drowning, being buried alive, and more. While some of us struggle with a significant phobia, others live...
Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” Statistics point to that truth. According to one poll, nearly fifty percent of Americans are fearful of contracting Covid-19 and sixty-two percent are more worried...
When Fear Crowds Your Thoughts Six months into the year and I wait in another doctor’s office. The muted tones on the walls fail to calm my anxious heart; instead, I perch near the large picture window on a stiff plastic chair, my fingers drumming the laminate table....
It’s the American dream; a core belief inscribed in looping ink upon the face of the constitution and passed from one to generation to the next. We are “endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the...
My voice, high and quiet, barely penetrated the good-humored discussion among my colleagues. Attempting to lead an activity, I was certain I noticed dismissive, bored glances from the other women. Their unspoken words, all a figment of my anxious imagination, left an...
