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The Magic Ingredients Required For Anxiety Recovery
I’ve had the pleasure of supporting a number of both women and men through the darkness of anxiety, stress, and panic over the years. This often has me asking what are those magical ingredients that lead to their success? What do the individuals who hop on the fast track to recovery have in common?
You could narrow it down to four qualities: ownership, commitment, willingness, and belief. While belief can follow, ownership, commitment, and willingness are a prerequisite for change to occur.
They understand this work must be a priority. So they make it a priority, and in doing so are rewarded greatly. It’s a mindset shift, and it changes everything.
Regardless of circumstances, there is no comparison when an individual committed to change goes up against one that is not. The former will fast-track their recovery, and the latter will continue down the same path of misery and self-pity.
Why is commitment so important?
Because the work demands it. Ironically, when you commit, life gets significantly easier. Some will commit straight away; some will take ten years; some will never change. Such — it seems — is the nature of the beast. And yes, many do commit yet, unfortunately, end up getting help from someone who doesn’t have their best…
