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YOU ARE NOT YOUR INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS.

Therapy for Anxiety & Stress in Raleigh

Stop negative rumination. Separate from your thoughts and find relief and gain effective coping strategies that work for you.

Reconnect with yourself, one session at a time.

LEARN PROVEN METHODS TO MINIMIZE ANXIETY

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The First Step to Manage Anxiety: Acknowledgment

Observe and accept anxious thoughts and stressors

Identify and recognize your sources of anxiety and stress. By naming them, you change the way in which you respond to and cope with them. You can also begin to rebuild your connection with your inner experience and notice where you feel anxiety and/or stress in the body.

PRACTICE, PATIENCE, AND COMMITMENT.

Coping Strategies and Techniques for Stress and Anxiety

Learn effective techniques to regulate your mood and emotions

Example methods:
  • Incorporate systematic attentional training (aka mindfulness) into your daily activities
  • Gain multiple ways to engage in deep breathing
  • Engage in progressive muscle relaxation
  • Break down intense stressors into multiple components identifiable by the available level of control
  • Transform unwanted thoughts and worries
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FOCUS YOUR MIND AND EXPERIENCE LIFE IN A HEALTHIER WAY

Mindfulness + Resilience

Reduce your anxiety and build your ability to work with challenging feelings by shifting your attention and awareness to your present experience

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From Liz Climo's Life in the Present (2024)

Minds wander roughly 46.9% of the time (Killingsworth & Gilbert, 2010). Fortunately, we can alter our default mode and focus our mind when it wants to stray through mindfulness, an established psychological method.

Practicing systematic attentional training leads to many benefits, including: improved cognitive function, reduction in anxiety, lowered pain intensity, and more positive moods.

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Mindfulness in Action

At Cuaresma Counseling, we review different mindfulness practices that allow you to train your attention and concentration. Some examples include:

  • Awareness of breath
  • Body scan
  • Loving kindness

Breathwork

You also gain multiple ways to engage in mindful breathing, such as diaphragmatic breathing and boxed breathing. From learning different practices, you can determine which technique works best for you.                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

 

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