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Pay close attention to your life; your surroundings, the people you interact with, and your day-to-day activities. Everything that surrounds you makes you, well, you. Think of all the possible forces of the universe that brought you to this very moment: you are reading this blog post because you understand that you can do better, that things will get better, and that today is the day.
Whether we are suffering from severe anxiety, or a less intense but underlying sense of discomfort and stress, we all have something in common. We want to feel better. We want to stop the vicious cycle of anxiety, fear, and worry.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Coach, Health, Lucinda Bassett, Positive Thinking, Starting Over, Uncategorized.
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was interviewed for an article in Blindfold Magazine and WOW, what a piece! It’s called, “Self Denial, Self Medication and Self Help: Lucinda Bassett Navigates The Age of Anxiety”.
It’s a candid interview, and one masterfully written by the author, Kyle Thompson. I’ve uploaded the entire 4-page spread for you to read here. If you’ve ever struggled with anxiety, depression, self-medication or self-doubt, I encourage you to take a few minutes and give it a read.
It’s a practical look at how to deal with these issues…and a peak into some of the issues I’ve overcome in my own life these past few years, too.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Depression, Lucinda Bassett, Mental Illness, Starting Over, Truth Be Told.
The success and survival of Lucinda Bassett: The story behind Truth Be Told
Former president of The Midwest Center For Stress and Anxiety, Lucinda Bassett is a nationally acclaimed motivational speaker and best-selling author of From Panic to Power and Life Without Limits. Her life-changing techniques have been shared with a variety of major corporations such as AT&T, and McDonalds, and professional associations such as LPGA and the AIDS Foundation, as well as many educational institutions.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Coach, Depression, Grief, Health, Illness, Loneliness, Loss, Lucinda Bassett, Mental Illness, Negative Thinking, Positive Thinking, PTSD, Relationships, Sadness, Sexual Abuse, Starting Over, Truth Be Told.
Here’s the good news. Great worriers make fabulous goal-setters and achievers. After all, worriers like you are focused, determined, and set on particular outcome. You have a powerful imagination, you think in minute detail, and you are extremely creative and a futuristic thinker. This is the same set of skills it takes to succeed. So if you’re a world-class worrier, you can also be a world-class achiever. All you need to do is change the focus of your attention from worrying to achieving great things.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Coach, Depression, Grief, Health, Illness, Loneliness, Loss, Lucinda Bassett, Mental Illness, Negative Thinking, Positive Thinking, PTSD, Relationships, Sadness, Sexual Abuse, Starting Over, Truth Be Told.
There has been significant research done on food, nutrients, and depression. The overwhelming tendency to call “fat” a culprit is not accurate in every case because our deep limbic system needs a certain amount of fat in order to operate properly. It is the kind of fat that makes the difference, like that in omega – 3 fatty acids, which are prevalent in fish.
Proteins, essential for the deep limbic system, are the building blocks of brain neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine, all implicated in depression and mood disorders.
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Posted by Lucinda Bassett in Anxiety, Coach, Depression, Grief, Health, Illness, Loneliness, Loss, Lucinda Bassett, Mental Illness, Negative Thinking, Positive Thinking, PTSD, Relationships, Sadness, Sexual Abuse, Starting Over, Truth Be Told.
