6| Anxiety and Peace Cont'd

How does anxiety tie in with our FOO (Family of Origin) or COO (Church of Origin).  Brandon talks about his Obsessive Compulsive symptoms that he felt tied to his family background.  

Panic Attacks and how we (and others) define anxiety -- do you "fight" anxiety?  Or do you feel the need to allow it, without fighting it in order to move through? 

How did your FOO and your COO effect your ability to calm yourself down?  Secure attachment with our first caretakers (i.e. Parents) is a way that we experience safety, security, & comfort.  Power and Intimacy (Imminence & Transcendence), in balance, are what we need as kids to feel safe, and it's what we need in our relationship with God as adults to manage adult stress.

Grief & Lament helps us to manage and label what was missing in our lives in order to move into a place of accepting what we needed in our FOO, and how to move towards wholeness. 

12 Steps from Celebrate Recovery: https://www.celebraterecovery.com/index.php/about-us/twelve-steps

We talk bible-- the experience of experiencing God in both imminence and transcendence, like in Exodus 33.  Susette reviewed how this passage brings her a sense of comfort and wonder in the midst of anxiety.  

Towards the end of the episode, our personality differences show about our experience with God  (in a way that we both like very much.) 

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In episode 6 post is our Anxiety Ladder Exercise.  The Welcoming Prayer is part of Ep 5 post.