Friends,

Like most of you I try to improve my life by trying to make changes which will increase my ability to better manage my life challenges. I think we all feel like we move ahead, and then something happens, and we may move backwards again, hopefully not as far back.

Anyway today I was thinking about the source of my anxiety, and my mind went to my mother. She was a wonderful and strong woman in many ways, but she always seemed to have an underlying, or not so underlying anxiousness about her.

She was also a black and white thinker, and created great fear in me about making decisions, b/c it seemed to me based on other things she said, if I were to make the wrong decision, it would have some dire consequence. Grrrrr....

Then I thought maybe some of you see a relationship between how you were parented and the anxiety you experience in your everyday lives.

Will you let me know?

Thanks,

EJ