I’m 38 years old but still feel like the anxious boy I’ve been for as long as I can remember.

While I wasn’t fine with that, I’d accepted it. Until I had my daughters.

I started to see my anxiety in each of my girls. I saw how it limited their experiences and impacted their view of the world and their view of themselves. That wasn’t acceptable. So this blog is to document my journey to understand, manage, and hopefully overcome (whatever that means) my anxiety so that I can give my daughters a guide to have a better relationship with theirs from the start.

My starting belief is that we are all already equipped with the necessary ingredients to get beyond anxiety.

What we are lacking are the practices that bring cohesion to those ingredients and the tools to apply them daily.

There is no number of 600 pages self-help books that will change our lives for more than a moment. But there is likely 600 words, if the right words, and in the right order, and in which we can fully believe, can change our foundational wiring. This is not to discount our self-help books, but to distill them into a finite number core concepts that are usable.