Anxiety

Trauma Lessons from The Lord of the Rings

Trauma Lessons from The Lord of the Rings

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By Mary Nikkel I remember when I was younger, I struggled to accept and understand why a lot of my peers found Frodo either forgettable or material for mocking. I understand it a little better now: the movies DO often make him not particularly likable or watchable. The book portrays him as someone who doesn’t […]

Anxiety From a Threat Response Perspective

Anxiety From a Threat Response Perspective

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Anxiety is a bio-physiological response of the body to threat. In other words, a somatic response, coming from the threat perception system in our brain (the amygdala). This threat is subjective and in response to feelings spawned from an event that does, or appears to, endanger human connection. We were created to be in connection. […]