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DON’T Tackle Anxious Thoughts Like This

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” — Epicetu

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Joe Gibson
Sep 04, 2022
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“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems” — Epicetu

Anxiety is a dream stopper, it’s a friendship blocker and a relationship curse. It’s the Achilles heel of all of our wants and needs and when left unchecked, is a route to a lot of our anguish.

And yet, we d…

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