My husband Michael used to enjoy watching nature shows about wildlife, but this week he told me he might stop because every show is about the disappearance of wildlife.
It makes me wild to think about how we’re harming wildlife.
Do you see wildlife in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search YouTube for “wildlife.”
I see a lot of anxiety in the people I encounter, these days, and also in myself.
The last two nights I had a lot of anxiety dreams — about my patients, my son, and a presentation I’m giving about groups next week.
I probably don’t need to be anxious about anything, but it’s difficult to tell our minds to stop being anxious or to stop worrying about the future. Just yesterday, I talked to a patient about the technique of scheduling worry.
Scheduling worry works like this: (1) You set aside a time for worry (e.g., Tuesday at 5:30 PM), (2) Put “worry” in your schedule, (3) when worry comes up, you tell yourself, “Nope! I’ll worry later at [the scheduled time], and (4) when the scheduled time comes, worry as hard as you can.
When there’s a lot of anxiety, it helps to contain it. And I hope it helps to know you’re not alone.
The Daily Bitch has a lot of anxiety today.
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Do you see a lot of anxiety in my other images for today?
A lot of people have a lot of anxiety about the Internet.
Do you ever have a lot of anxiety? If so, what helps to reduce it, even just a little?
I may have a lot of anxiety sometimes, but I also have a lot of gratitude for those who help me lower my anxiety every day with this blog, including you!
I haven’t looked at the news yet, but I’m predicting that much of it involves people predicting the future.
We humans specialize in predicting the future, especially when the present is uncomfortable and confusing.
When I’m predicting the future, I’m usually catastrophizing — assuming the worst case scenario. I do that to prepare myself, but that prevents me from being in the moment — which actually helps me to prepare better for what’s coming.
Two of my tweets yesterday were about predicting the future.
I was predicting that those tweets would be much more popular than they were. I couldn’t predict that this tweet would be MUCH more popular:
As always, I’m terrible at predicting the future. However, I predict that I’ll keep trying to do it.
Certain things are easy to predict, like my sharing images every day in this blog.
I wouldn’t have predicted that the Daily Bitch would be so non-bitchy today! Maybe that’s because it’s “National Love is Kind” Day.
