Alice Boyes, Ph.D., is author of the The Healthy Mind Toolkit, from which this essay is adapted. She is also the author of The Anxiety Toolkit and a frequent blogger for Psychology Today. Her research has been published by the American Psychological Association.
Knowing how anxiety works can help you to better support loved ones without inadvertently making their anxiety worse.
Understanding the roots of self-sabotaging behavior can help us to find fixes that will make our lives more successful and less conflicted.
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