Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amy B. Scher, author of How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can and the new How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can.
Anxiety is often described to me as a deep-seated feeling that something bad is happening or is about to happen. And this is actually quite accurate because something bad is happening—but it's not at all what you think.
Anxiety comes from your body being in "freak-out" mode, not because of what's happening outside of you but because of what's stuck inside of you. While external circumstances outside of your control certainly may trigger you, that is not the actual origin of anxiety.
The feeling of