What to Do When Anxiety Eclipses Joy 

The payoff for anxiety is often limited. Where we might think dress rehearsing the tragedy and our anticipation of the negative outcomes is helping us, it is often trapping us. We are here to live, to be, and to experience life. Living in anxiety can feel like playing out our worst fears over and over rather than experiencing presence of the beauty and the life all around us. It can erode away our resiliency for when something truly challenging happens. Brene Brown names this eternal waiting for the other shoe to drop “foreboding joy.”