Getting to Know Your Anxiety - Part 4

The fourth part of four episodes on anxiety. The workshop has wrapped up, and we are reviewing what was presented at the workshop here in episode 16. The workshop at St. Peter's Episcopal average around 25 people per week. There was a lot of positive feedback about the presentations. I hope to be able to do more workshops in the future. If your group is interested in a presentation on anxiety, depression, relationships, parent/child communication, or a wide variety of content about psychology let me know. I'd be happy to present depending on the schedule. 
For our Did You See That segment we review the podcast by Michael Britt. Professor Britt does a podcast titled The Psych Files. He reviewed the Reproducibility Project. His take is that the project does more to bring to light the problems we have with the research culture in general rather than showing that psychological research is suspect itself. Check out his podcast at: http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2015/09/ep-245-the-results-of-the-reproducibility-project-incentives-out-of-whack/
Our main segment reviews what was covered in the fourth workshop. We have covered various practical techniques to manage anxiety, but what about living our lives to the fullest with or in spite of anxiety. In the episode I talk about that anxiety holds us in place or causes us to run away. We are afraid of change. The fear is because we are afraid of losing something, the process of change, or the outcomes. Facing our fears we can see that change doesn't need to be all in one step. It can be step by step. What is one small thing you can do to make a change today? 
One of the major problems with facing our fear and making the change is not feeling valuable enough, or being willing to be vulnerable. I reference a Ted talk by Brene Brown to discuss how we can increase our sense of worth to be vulnerable to risk change. http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
Finally, we talk look at Colossians 3:12-14 and Galatians 3:26-29 to explore how we are children of God. We are heirs of the process. You are worthy.
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