Anxiety Is in Your Body, Not Your Mind

Why you might want to stop talking about your anxiety and try this instead

Emma Pattee
Elemental
Published in
7 min readApr 5, 2021

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Let’s back up 50,000 years or so. Imagine you’re a Neanderthal taking a leisurely stroll through the fields. Suddenly, in the nearby bushes, you hear a tiger. In a nanosecond, your entire body starts reacting. Your pulse quickens, your breathing gets shallow, your eyes…

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Emma Pattee
Elemental

Writer from Portland, Ore. Words in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Cut, Glamour, Marie Claire, Elle, and others. emmapattee.com