When I was experiencing panic attacks, a counselor said to me; you don’t trust yourself in that situation and you don’t trust your Higher Power. So you panic. Anxiety is a lower level of panic and fueled by the same low level of trust. It is a symptom of our fear of the above.

Worry can produce or exacerbate anxiety. The root for worry (wert)  suggests circling or turning round and round the same issue. Yet not changing our perspective in the process.

As a child and a teen we did not have a model for coping successfully with anxiety or worry. We were not given the opportunity to test our ability to successfully navigate stressful situations .So as adults we default to those times when we were incapable of handling the situation in a mature way.

An Empty Chair conversation with ourselves at an earlier age can enable the child within to trust the adult to navigate anxiety and the fear of not being enough.