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There's a certain kind of loneliness that's difficult to admit because by any outward measure, it shouldn't be there. You have people in your life. A partner, maybe. Friends. Colleagues you get along with. Family who care about you. Your phone has notifications. Your calendar has plans. And yet underneath all of that, there is a quiet, persistent sense of not being truly known. This is the loneliness that doesn't show up in statistics about social isolation. It's not the lone

High-functioning anxiety is one of the most commonly missed forms of anxiety, precisely because it doesn't look like what most people imagine anxiety to be. If you're meeting your responsibilities, maintaining your relationships, and getting through each day, it can be easy to dismiss the underlying experience as 'just being a bit stressed.' But there's a difference between stress and a nervous system that has learned to stay permanently alert. Here are ten signs that what yo

Most advice about anxiety focuses on the mind. Identify the thought. Challenge it. Replace it with something more rational. And this can help, but if you've tried it and found that the anxiety keeps coming back, there might be a reason that has nothing to do with how hard you're trying. The reason is this: a significant amount of anxiety doesn't actually live in your thoughts. It lives in your body. The body as the site of anxiety Think about what anxiety actually feels lik

You look fine. That's the problem. You meet your deadlines. You show up for the people in your life. You hold it together. At work in relationships, in the small daily performances that make up a functioning life. And underneath all of that, there is something more. A low grade worry. A tightness that lives in your chest. A sense of being perpetually braced for something, even when nothing is actually wrong. A mind that won't stop running, even at the end of a long day when y