Turn Your Anxiety Into a Signal That Finally Sets You Free | Dr. John Delony

Your anxiety might be the one part of you that is working perfectly.
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Dr. John Delony, a mental health expert, told Lewis that anxiety is a smoke alarm in your house. It can't tell you which room is burning. It just knows there is smoke.
If you carry six figures in student loans and a mortgage, your body would be failing you if it let you sleep all night. Waking at 2:30 in the morning means it is doing its job.
Numbing it with another drink or another Netflix night is, in John's words, duct-taping a pillow over the alarm. Sometimes the real fix is sitting down with your spouse and saying, “We have to rebuild this thing or it's over.”
The next time the alarm wakes you, put down the fight and ask what in your life feels unsafe.
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