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evidence-backed writing on wellness.

2026-07-25

The Anxiety Loop: Why Your Brain Keeps You in the Same Place (And How to Get Out)

Anxiety is not trying to hurt you. It is trying to protect you from something that happened once, or something that has never happened, or something that probably will not happen. The problem is the protection mechanism was built for a world that no longer exists.

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2026-07-18

The Anxiety Gap: Why Your Anxiety Is Usually About Something That Hasn't Happened Yet

Anxiety is a prediction, not a fact. Voice journaling helps you see the gap between what your brain is forecasting and what is actually occurring, and that gap is where the work happens.

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2026-07-17

Why Your Affirmations Are Not Working (And What the Research Says Instead)

I said 'I am confident' to a mirror every morning for six weeks. It did not help. If anything, it made things worse, because every time I said it and did not feel it, the gap between the sentence and my actual state became its own evidence that something was wrong with me.

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