{"id":75685,"date":"2016-07-04T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=75685"},"modified":"2016-06-27T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:09:46","slug":"thin-slices-of-anxiety-an-illustrated-meditation-on-what-its-like-to-live-enslaved-by-worry-and-how-to-break-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/07\/thin-slices-of-anxiety-an-illustrated-meditation-on-what-its-like-to-live-enslaved-by-worry-and-how-to-break-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Slices of Anxiety: An Illustrated Meditation on What It\u2019s Like to Live Enslaved by Worry and How to Break Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A guided tour of this pernicious prison of the psyche, honest and assuring in its honesty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thinslicesofanxiety.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-75686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thinslicesofanxiety-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"thinslicesofanxiety\" width=\"180\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thinslicesofanxiety-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thinslicesofanxiety.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Kierkegaard called anxiety \u201cthe dizziness of freedom\u201d and believed that it <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2013\/06\/19\/kierkegaard-on-anxiety-and-creativity\/\" >serves to power rather than hinder creativity<\/a>. For Darwin, it was a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/08\/28\/darwin-anxiety\/\" >paralyzing lifelong struggle<\/a> \u2014 he accomplished his breakthroughs not because of anxiety but despite it. <em>\u201cAnxiety,\u201d<\/em> Ana\u00efs Nin <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2012\/12\/03\/anais-nin-love-debbie-millman-1\/\" >wrote in her diary<\/a>, <em>\u201cmakes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anxiety belongs to the broader <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/07\/21\/creativity-and-mental-illness\/\" >complex relationship between creativity and mental illness<\/a>, and although the causal direction of that relationship might forever evade us, it is strangely assuring to know that other minds \u2014 especially minds of above-average intelligence and creative ability \u2014 have been savaged by this blunt-toothed beast.<\/p>\n<p>Such solidary consolation is what Montreal-based designer and illustrator <strong>Catherine Lepage<\/strong> offers in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thin-Slices-Anxiety-Observations-Worried\/dp\/1452145792\/?tag=braipick-20\" ><strong><em>Thin Slices of Anxiety: Observations and Advice to Ease a Worried Mind<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/thin-slices-of-anxiety-observations-and-advice-to-ease-a-worried-mind\/oclc\/905599766&amp;referer=brief_results\" ><em>public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 an illustrated meditation on what it\u2019s like to live enslaved by one\u2019s own worries and what one can do to break free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thinslicesofanxiety10.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-75687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/thinslicesofanxiety10.jpg\" alt=\"thinslicesofanxiety10\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/06\/23\/thin-slices-of-anxiety-catherine-lepage\/?mc_cid=0506706136&amp;mc_eid=f209d58223\" >To continue reading please Go to Original \u2013 brainpickings.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guided tour of this pernicious prison of the psyche, honest and assuring in its honesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}