You know you’re anxious, but it’s hard to tell when you should worry and when you shouldn’t. Everything seems like it might go wrong somehow. You get wrapped up too much in what other people think about you.

If only knowing you’re just anxious was enough to turn it off. Many people these days struggle under the weight of anxiety. Anxiety is like a false alarm that you can’t turn off. But you can change your anxiety by changing your relationship with it. Normally, when anxiety shows up, we react in a knee-jerk fashion, feeding into our anxiety and making it stronger. Mindfulness-based therapy helps you take charge of your anxiety by seeing it for what it is when it shows up and learning to take care of it, just like you would take care of a child you care about. You can develop a more skillful way of responding that weakens your anxious thoughts and feelings and wires in new responses that are more skillful and compassionate. Practicing mindfulness helps you develop the ability to let go of anxious thinking rather than feeling like a victim of it. Working with anxiety this way turns the volume down so you can enjoy your life and do more of what you love.