Escaping the Black Hole of Worry

Worry is an all-consuming black hole that drains your time, emotions, and physical well-being. Worry is insidious because you are so used to it that you aren’t aware of how often, or how readily, you worry. For some people, worry is a way of life.

We grow up being taught, by example, to make worry a regular activity. We worry about what happened. We worry about what is happening now. We worry about what might happen. We worry about what others will do. We worry about what other people won’t do. We worry about just about everything.

Worry becomes a default reaction to uncertainty. At the very l...