"Anxiety is a deeply misunderstood emotion, so much so that most of us don't know the difference between anxiety (the emotion of motivation) and panic (the emotion that protects you from danger). This misunderstanding gets in the way of our ability to work with anxiety, because if we don't know which emotion we're feeling, we won't know how to respond to it or work with it skillfully."
"In 2020, I wrote a book called Embracing Anxiety, but just 10 years earlier, I was ignorant about anxiety. Luckily, in late 2010, I heard psychologist Mary Lamia talking about anxiety on a radio show, and I realized what had caused my emotional ignorance. Dr. Lamia is a clinical psychologist and educator who was being interviewed about her children's book Understanding Myself: A Kid's Guide to Intense Emotionsand Strong Feelings."
Procrastination is often portrayed as laziness or weakness, causing natural procrastinators to be overlooked, unsupported, or disrespected. Procrastination can function as a valid and sometimes necessary strategy to manage tasks and deadlines. Anxiety is frequently misunderstood, and many people conflate anxiety, the emotion of motivation, with panic, the emotion that protects from danger. This confusion undermines the ability to recognize and respond appropriately to emotions. Two distinct anxiety-driven task responses exist: procrastination, which focuses on deadlines and waits until anxiety compels action, and do-it-aheading, which addresses individual tasks sequentially toward a deadline.
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