{"id":166,"date":"2025-11-25T21:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:04:51","slug":"breaking-the-anxiety-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the anxiety loop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Posting here for my future self to reference. A reminder that sometimes it&#8217;s anxiety about anxiety, which can lead to me pushing away my current (anxious) self. And maybe, the answer is holding the anxiety closely and kindly. Basically giving it a hug. Hopefully this can help remind me now, and in the future, to defuse from my emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Breaking The Anxiety Loop\u2014 How To Stop Anxiety About Anxiety\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdCBchjSQHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting here for my future self to reference. A reminder that sometimes it&#8217;s anxiety about anxiety, which can lead to me pushing away my current (anxious) self. And maybe, the answer is holding the anxiety closely and kindly. Basically giving it a hug. Hopefully this can help remind me now, and in the future, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-survival-skills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}