ARC Blog

Anxiety has had awful PR for nearly all of human existence. It’s viewed as this horrible thing that we need to eradicate in order to live our best lives. That’s not what it is. Yes, it can [...]

Last week, I said to my friend,  “Just like someone who studies Freud thinks that everything boils down to sex, I think that everything boils down to anxiety.” Since I started learning about [...]

We promised that we’d slow down. Remember? We vowed that we would no longer over-schedule ourselves. We swore that we no longer glamorize being busy. We posted and shared memes about how when [...]

*Spoiler Alert! It’s NOT.* It appears that the subject of mental health is something else that can divide us in 2021. Yaaaay! One more thing!!! As I listen to and read all of the hot takes [...]

It’s hard to believe, (Especially here in Arizona where we’re still averaging about 105 degrees), but a new school year is on the horizon. Some of our kiddos have already started! The first day [...]

This is Leroy, my 7-year old orange tabby. We rescued each other after I decided that my other kitten, Omar, needed a buddy. Since he moved into my home, he’s grown from an absurdly adorable and [...]

The process of writing blog posts can be varied, but for me, it typically begins with a topic that Katy and Laura bring up that resonates with me. If I’m having a little trouble getting [...]

Recently, one of my best friends got hives at the aspect of telling someone no. Red, itchy, blotchy hives.  What did she turn down, you ask? Was it organ donation or a marriage proposal? Clearly, [...]

We live in a world where ‘multi-tasking’ is held in the highest regard. We sit in front of screens for hours each day. We regale each other with stories of how many different things [...]

I have always been a bad sleeper. Notoriously bad. So much so that when I moved back home after college, my mom referred to me as “in-house security” because I seemed to be up all hours of the [...]

Last week I read that 30 – 37% of the US population experienced COVID-based anxiety throughout 2020. Although that number did fluctuate, it never got below 30% during the entire year.  [...]

There are some great partnerships throughout history. The Wright brothers, Sonny and Cher, Ben and Jerry, Lucy and Ethel, Holmes and Watson… I’d like to submit for consideration, Fielder [...]

You don’t DESERVE to rest. You NEED to rest. The events of this past year have caused us to look at every aspect of our day-to-day life through a different lens. The way that we view rest has got [...]

If you’re looking for a quick, effective, free, and FUN mood lifter, look no further than your feet. Even if you have two left ones. Studies show that dancing is an effective way to [...]

Leave it to actor, ambassador, and humanitarian, Sidney Poitier – the personification of quiet dignity – to make a statement that can also be used as a sort of ‘checklist for [...]

This morning while both Drs. Fielder and Huser were in session, I was doing my hourly dance routine. I call it “Sterilizing the Office.” Why there isn’t a Tik Tok challenge for [...]

Last year, I wrote a piece on the concept of acceptance. It was inspired by a conversation that I had with Dr. Fielder and Dr. Huser regarding the anxiety that so many of us have in the current [...]

Nearly two years ago, I wrote a blog about my early days of meditating. As with anything shiny and new, I was reveling in the honeymoon period of my new habit. I just knew that life was going to [...]

Man, we have been THROUGH IT, haven’t we? I don’t know about you, but here at Anxiety Resource Center, we’ve stopped asking, “What else can happen?” We’ll just keep our heads down and power [...]

Today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Our opportunity to commemorate December 7, 1941. “A day that will live in infamy.” Over 2400 service men and civilians were killed. 1100 were injured. I’m [...]