Family Anxiety, 12

Anxious habitats can hastily lead to anxious choices.

Family Anxiety, 11

Accumulated experiences live in your body. Which is to say, the average nervous system does not need to remain present for all family activities.

Family Anxiety, 10

Projection is vigilantly paying attention to a trait in someone else, rather than acknowledging it in yourself.

Family Anxiety, 9

Anxious energy blocks alternatives, and neck-braces you into a focal point. Journal Prompts: When I am anxious I focus on... Expanding my focus would...

Family Anxiety, 8

Your anxiety sensor is on, what information is it picking up? Journal Prompts: I am most aware of... My anxiety levels seem to fluctuate around...

Family Anxiety, 7

If you watched a parent grit their teeth and clench their fist, but never say anything, you noticed. If you observed a parent catapult into rapid speech and dysregulated emotion, you took notes...

Family Anxiety, 6

Anxiety is not an on/off switch, it is like a dimmer. When you choose to be conscious of the brighten and fade, it empowers you to intervene on your own behalf. Journal Prompts: My anxiety increases when... My anxiety is at the lowest when... My anxiety is most manageable when...

Family Anxiety, 5

Your body has athletic memory that cues hyper-vigilance and rapid speech into place. While this memory is protective and helpful often, sometimes with family, it is memory response instead of a contextual one. Journal Prompts: ...immediately prompts anxiety for me. ...triggers hyper-vigilance.

Family Anxiety, 4

Anxiety shapes the way you experience family. Molded from repetition, you slip into a glove of responsiveness that is comfortable because it is known. Think a stiff leather glove, with little flexibility, demanding that you experience family as you always have. Journal Prompts: I am hypersensitive to... My family will always be... My filter says...

Family Anxiety, 3

The desire to control and the output of anxiety, rise together. Especially in family. Journal Prompts: They would be better off if they... My anxiety increases around my desire to control...