If you can't seem to reduce your anxiety, ask yourself if there is purpose your anxiety is serving. Maybe your anxiety keeps you in a relationship or at a job that you're afraid to leave. If so, face those issues head on, until you are operating according to your choices -- not your anxiety!

How can we stop worrying when part of us seems convinced that if we only do enough of it we'll stay healthy, safe, and successful for the rest of our lives? By recognizing that worry is a poor substitute for knowledge, intuition and inspiration.

Your emotions don't have to get in your way! That's the best news. The trick is to realize that you can gain mastery over your emotions rather than it being the other way around.

It's a new year that brings with it a promise of letting go of habits that deplete you, and adapting behaviors that can help you advance.

Making peace with your anxiety and not fighting it is a concept used in everyday mindfulness training that was first introduced to me years ago when I was grappling with severe symptoms of anxiety.

These two little "what if" words completely suck our power away. It's happened to me every year. Until this one. This year, I decided to follow the best leaders I know, the leaders who don't let those pesky two words come anywhere near their thoughts.

This holiday season, if you find yourself feeling stressed out, instead of reaching for a double shot of eggnog, try giving people in your life the benefit of the doubt. You may end up giving it to yourself, too!

I always have, even back when I taught college composition, but I like a challenge. That's what I told myself when I submitted to Expressing Motherhood, a stage show in which about a dozen performers deliver their own stories about being and having mothers.

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Nan Waldman, Quora User Consider reparenting yourself. Imagine an ideal parent loving you completel...

Journalists love declaring that psychiatric medications symbolize some slice of the zeitgeist. So I can't say I was entirely surprised when I opened my mailbox the other day and saw New York Magazine's latest cover article proclaiming that this is the era of Xanax.

Studies dating back to 1981 concluded that exercise can improve mood in people suffering from mild to moderate depression, and may even serve to help those suffering from severe depression.

Being aware of what triggers your anxiety and mindfully making choices to cope with them provides emotional freedom. life. Then you won't simply be reacting when your buttons get pushed.

Although it was known that anxious teens often self-medicate with alcohol, a group of Finnish researchers, led by Sari Fröjd at the University of Tam...

It isn't that I'm afraid of being judged, laughed at or forgetting the words. It is a physical response for me that seems to happen at random.

Record numbers of people in modern society, predominantly women, suffer from mild to extreme anxiety. What is going on and what can we do about it?

Apart from holding on tight and just dealing with the volatility as it arises, what are some concrete steps that you can take to overcome the fears associated with market volatility?

While a deeper understanding of the nature of the mind will have longer lasting effects, the above emergency interventions may be useful strategies when you have to do something to stop anxiety.

One of the essentials of finding and balancing wellness that I mentioned in my last post is the act of crying -- or "psychogenic lachrymations." Seven months later, I'm still taken by the act.

Some of these herbs may help in the treatment of anxiety.