The Transforming Anxiety Podcast

Well, ready or not, 2022 is here! And instead of wishing you a "happy new year" I'm just going to say: "new year!" Because really, it doesn't have to be happy. Or easy. Or peaceful. Or certain. If we've learned anything the past 2 years, we've learned to adjust our expectations of what might happen. So I'm going to just stick to the facts here: new year to you! Over the winter break I did a LOT of reading, mainly because I spent the fall getting behind on the reading I need to be doing for my meditation certification. And I was re-reading a certain chapter of Sebene Selassie's book You Belong and came to a section on compare and compete and thought: YES. I'm always looking to understand more about how we disconnect, separate, and create suffering for ourselves...because I'm deeply interested in connection, belonging, and creating steadiness as a lifestyle. And at the root of *so much* of our anxiety is this constant churn of comparing (what is she wearing? how much do they make? what does he eat for lunch?) a