Loved this, Stewart, and yes, I think this is exactly the right approach. I also recognize that there are no absolutes. For some, the cycle might look like a long run of engagement followed by an equally long respite. My style is more like yours. I read an interview with Martha Beck today in which she talked about pervasive anxiety and the need to remember it as “a mental interpretation of a threat that is not physically present.” Being right here, right now has always been challenging for me, but it really is remarkably effective when it’s put to use. Praise for all the birds, the bug-consuming Ibis, the congregations of helpers!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for your insight on this. Yes, feeling a threat (pervasive anxiety) and being threatened are distinct. And yet, how often people conflate the two. I’m looking for something like we have for vitamins: the “minimum daily adult dose of news.”
Witty and insightful. Thanks
There’s more where that came from…. somewhere here…
So I’ve read. Happy writing
Loved this, Stewart, and yes, I think this is exactly the right approach. I also recognize that there are no absolutes. For some, the cycle might look like a long run of engagement followed by an equally long respite. My style is more like yours. I read an interview with Martha Beck today in which she talked about pervasive anxiety and the need to remember it as “a mental interpretation of a threat that is not physically present.” Being right here, right now has always been challenging for me, but it really is remarkably effective when it’s put to use. Praise for all the birds, the bug-consuming Ibis, the congregations of helpers!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for your insight on this. Yes, feeling a threat (pervasive anxiety) and being threatened are distinct. And yet, how often people conflate the two. I’m looking for something like we have for vitamins: the “minimum daily adult dose of news.”