The process of learning to live with anxiety begins with accepting that it is going to be ever-present. I must no longer have a relationship of success or failure with respect to its removal and I also need to fundamentally change how I view it. For instance, I have to stop thinking of anxiety as inherently undesirable. Moreover, I can also learn to navigate certain triggers that exacerbate my anxiety. And this can be quite valuable because facing our anxiety can often lead to greater self-knowledge. When you feel anxious, try not to immediately push it away. As Paul Tillich says, one of the best things we can do with anxiety is to think about it and make it into a fear, i.e. give it a concrete object.

-Samir Chopra

I'm going to cut back on sugar.