We live in a world that glorifies control. From career paths to personal relationships, from health to finances—we are taught to manage, manipulate, and master. But what happens when things slip ...

Fear of failure, fear of heights, fear of flying, fear of bugs, whatever you fear can be paralyzing. Most of us do nothing rather than confront our fear. Instead, we should probe why we are afraid and ...

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," said Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his First Inaugural Address. I'm sorry Mr. President, but I thoroughly disagree with this statement. Why should ...

Some nights, the silence is unbearable. Not because it’s quiet, but because your thoughts won’t stop screaming. You pace. You sit in the dark. You imagine worst-case scenarios so vividly, your chest ...

Worry is a frequent companion for anyone who lives with anxiety. I define it as the quiet form of anxiety that shows up as repetitive thoughts, “what if” scenarios, and mental rehearsals of the “worst ...

The bottom line is that fear will always be there. Your goal shouldn’t be to eliminate fear – it’s to learn how to manage it. Do you let it control you? Or do you use it to fuel your growth and drive ...

The more unsettled the times, the more potent are our anxious feelings. When a natural disaster gets completely out of hand, like the current devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, fear triggers more ...

Astrocytes, once thought to be mere brain “support cells,” are now revealed to be key players in fear memory. Researchers found they actively help form, recall, and weaken fear responses by ...