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The Root Cause of Anxiety: Why Trauma Keeps You Stuck in Fight-or-Flight
Anxiety isn’t a random malfunction, even if your anxiety feels random. Anxiety is a highly intelligent survival response rooted in your brain and nervous system. Many people mistakenly think “calmness” is the solution to anxiety. They’ll say things like “just relax”, which of course, don’t help at all. When we understand that anxiety is your brain and body’s threat detection system sensing danger and trying to protect you, the solution becomes much clearer. It’s not calmness

Katie Potratz
5 min read


Why Understanding Your Anxiety Isn’t the Same as Healing It (and Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Anxiety)
This is for you if you’ve done the work, but anxiety still shows up. You’ve read the books. You’ve listened to the podcasts. You’ve gone to therapy. You know the coping strategies by heart. You understand your triggers. You can probably explain why you’re anxious. But none of this has actually stopped the anxiety from showing up. This is because anxiety isn’t something you can think your way out of. It’s a subconscious, emotional pattern, not a logical problem. Many people

Katie Potratz
6 min read
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