Anxiety can be – at best – overwhelming and inconvenient, and, at wort, completely debilitating. It’s easy to label anxiety as the problem when it seems to cause us so much discomfort and pain. But one of the keys to healing anxiety is understanding what it really is. Anxiety is not a malfunction or something that’s trying to hurt you — anxiety is a protective response created by the subconscious and nervous system. I’ve been helping people heal from anxiety and a myriad of o