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The Chemistry of Calm

Drug-free strategies for quieting fears and overcoming anxiety.

Resilience
Creating Pathways to Resilience: The Whole Person Change Process

Henry Emmons M.D. on February 6, 2011

Last week I saw a woman who had experienced years of unrelenting anxiety and depression. She was grieving the many ways these conditions had held her back and diminished her life. In a moving statement expressing both her grief and her defiant strength, she cried, "I am more than this! My life is more than this!"

Last week I saw a woman who had experienced years of unrelenting anxiety and depression. She was grieving the many ways these conditions had held her back and diminished her life. In a moving statement expressing both her grief and her defiant strength, she cried, "I am more than this! My life is more than this!"

Stress
The Year of Living Anxiously

Henry Emmons M.D. on January 4, 2011

No one resolves to create a more stressful life. Yet without knowing it that is exactly what many of us do every day. How do we do it? How can we avoid it?

No one resolves to create a more stressful life. Yet without knowing it that is exactly what many of us do every day. How do we do it? How can we avoid it?

Fear
Fear Not the Winter Blues

Henry Emmons M.D. on December 3, 2010

Winter's cold, short days remind us that we are mammals—and, like other mammals, we have a drive to hide out during the dark months.

Winter's cold, short days remind us that we are mammals—and, like other mammals, we have a drive to hide out during the dark months.

Anger
The Unsettling of the American Mind

Henry Emmons M.D. on November 1, 2010

Whew! We are at the end of the political season! As the dust settles, what lives on in our hearts and minds-and which gets our votes-the politics of fear or of hope?

Whew! We are at the end of the political season! As the dust settles, what lives on in our hearts and minds-and which gets our votes-the politics of fear or of hope?