How To Deal With Anxiety Blog | Alicia H. Clark PsyD https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/blog/anxiety-blog/ Licensed Psychologists, Washington DC Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:34:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Favicon-squiggle-4-150x150.png How To Deal With Anxiety Blog | Alicia H. Clark PsyD https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/blog/anxiety-blog/ 32 32 8 Key Ways to Heal After Personal Trauma and Setbacks https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/8-ways-heal-after-personal-trauma/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:48:47 +0000 http://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=7032 Healing after personal trauma takes time and requires consistent, and hopeful, effort. It’s normal to wonder how you will ever heal after experiencing a personal trauma or a serious setback in your life. The truth is, life isn’t always fair. For most of us, a personal crisis can happen at any time, each one rocking…

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]]> 6 Ways Grief Can Make You Wonder If You’ll Ever Be OK https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/6-ways-grief-can-make-wonder-youll-ever-ok/ https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/6-ways-grief-can-make-wonder-youll-ever-ok/#comments Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:32:10 +0000 http://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=3691 With the holidays and early winter being statistically the most popular season to die, late winter can be a time of grief for many survivors left to face life without a loved one – an experience that can feel overwhelming, destabilizing, and confusing. We all know that it is normal to feel sad for a…

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]]> https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/6-ways-grief-can-make-wonder-youll-ever-ok/feed/ 34 Why Grieving & Anxiety Go Hand-in-Hand https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/grieving-and-anxiety/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:03:05 +0000 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=11959 Psychological insights to help you as you heal People don’t often think of anxiety when they think about loss and grief. You expect to be sad, devastated, angry, shocked, even disoriented, but you don’t expect to feel afraid and anxious. Yet grieving and anxiety are very common companions. Understanding how and why anxiety can show…

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]]> How To Stop Procrastinating In 8 Workable Steps https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating/ https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating/#comments Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:09:46 +0000 http://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=3284 The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step – Lao Tzu Most of us struggle with procrastination from time-to-time, but for some people, procrastination can be a significant hurdle that can threaten the things and people you care about most. Knowing how to stop procrastinating can be humbling, and tough.  Procrastination may have…

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]]> https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/how-to-stop-procrastinating/feed/ 2 One Hidden Benefit Of Tackling Your Chronic Disorganization – It Will Reduce Your Anxiety https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/chronic-disorganization/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:38:56 +0000 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=11942 Chronic disorganization is real, and the relationship between disorganization and anxiety can be exacerbating. Have you ever wondered why it feels like such a relief to clear off a cluttered countertop? Or to empty a closet of old clothes? Or to get your papers in order so you know, even for a few moments, where…

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]]> Feeling Envious And Irritated Lately? Try This One Thing https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/feeling-envious/ Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:00:16 +0000 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=11591 Feeling Envious And Irritated Lately? Try This One Thing It isn’t hard to be envious of friends and neighbors who seem to be weathering life a bit easier than you. And that envy isn’t helping you fend off irritability – in fact, it could be making it worse. Your social media feed seems full  of…

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]]> What Is Teenage Angst & When To Be Concerned From A Psychologist Who Knows https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/what-is-teenage-angst/ https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/what-is-teenage-angst/#comments Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:29:13 +0000 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=10720 If you’re the parent of a teen, chances are you have had plenty of occasions to feel frustrated, confused and worried about how s/he is behaving. That is just how parenting teens goes – as they struggle, we do too. The pandemic brought myriad parental challenges from distance learning to social isolation, and we got…

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]]> https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/what-is-teenage-angst/feed/ 1 Feeling Anxiety About Dating? Here’s Why That’s Normal https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/feeling-anxiety-at-the-beginning-of-a-relationship-heres-why-thats-normal/ https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/feeling-anxiety-at-the-beginning-of-a-relationship-heres-why-thats-normal/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:52:44 +0000 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=9921 Whether you’re in a new relationship, or wanting to find one, it can be easy to feel anxiety about dating even as the common wisdom is that you are supposed to be having fun and basking in the glow of new love and euphoric feelings. Yet, feeling anxiety about dating, and even at the beginning…

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]]> https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/feeling-anxiety-at-the-beginning-of-a-relationship-heres-why-thats-normal/feed/ 8 How to Help Someone With Anxiety About the Unknown https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/how-to-help-someone-with-anxiety/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:43:56 +0000 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=11024 It isn’t always easy to know how to help someone with anxiety, especially when we are sharing the same worries and concerns. When it comes to the unknowns in life, we have all had our fair share of facing and dealing with them. Global conflicts, pandemic lockdowns, loss, layoffs, and more. The worry about those…

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]]> Understanding OCD – How It’s Different From General Anxiety https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/understanding-ocd/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:48:04 +0000 https://aliciaclarkpsyd.com/?p=11821 Understanding OCD is more than just noticing controlling behavior or preferences for order, and can be more nuanced than we may think. Distinguishing between a normal human emotion and a mental health symptom is ever important, although not always obvious. Below is a comprehensive look from a psychologist’s lens of what OCD is, and what it…

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