Name: Surviving Toxic Anxiety Syndrome by Mental Health International
Duration: 7 min 45 s
Description: As I search for a new home I begin to feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. Rather than act from it I try and identify who, in me, is getting afraid.

As I search for a new home I begin to feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. Rather than act from it I try and identify who, in me, is getting afraid.

Surviving Toxic Anxiety Syndrome

Inspired by the open-air chessboard outside her window, Lysanne reflects on the issue of external and internal control and the measure in which we bring all the elements of chess into the game of life. Who dominates your inner world? The square castle, the bouncy knight, or the lowly pawn?
“A favourite expression is that you can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you respond to it. And I believe that’s true. But if that response is mainly unconscious, informed by a handful of dominant chess pieces that tell the others to shut up, then the perceived sense of control is still false. You might then conclude that I think we should all live like jellyfish, rocked about on the waves and the tides of the great oceans and seas.”

Playing Life Like It’s A Game Of Chess - Audio

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Surviving Toxic Anxiety Syndrome

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