SG, it is so nice to see you here again. (((hugs))) I am on vacation and this will probably be the only time I get to check in this week, so I am glad I saw your post.

Here are some things that have helped me:
--Journal about the topics that are making me anxious and I am spending too much time thinking about
--talk to a friend about the problems, get them "out there" and verbalized. this can relieve some of my need to think about them
--talk to my therapist about the issues in question
--do EMDR with my therapist. Not appropriate for all issues, but can help one process events and get unstuck
--give myself "permission" to obsess/think about one aspect of an anxiety producing topic but not the rest of it. For example, recently my husband and I met together with each of our divorce lawyers in a 4 way meeting. It was a big deal and I was very anxious and scared. I was afraid I would be intimidated by my husband's lawyers and many other things about this meeting made me anxious and were keeping me up nights in anticipation. To keep from obsessive thinking, I gave myself permission to obsess about one relatively benign feature of the upcoming meeting--who would sit where. So whenever I started thinking and worrying about the meeting, I would make myself switch to thinking about who would sit where at the meeting. I went through all the possible scenarios: husband and lawyer across the table from me and my lawyer, who is opposite who, whould I be on the right or left (problem for me since I don't hear well out of one ear), etc etc. This really helped me. My mind needed to obsess/worry about something, like a dog chewing on a bone. Any chewing helped satisfy my need to worry, but I didn't get overwrought worrying about all the other stuff associated with the meeting, just who would sit where. Does this make sense? Maybe I'm just weird that this would be helpful to me...

Best of luck.