Wellness Wednesday: Managing Worry & Anxiety

Interested in finding simple yet impactful ways to weave wellness into your professional and personal life?  If so, please join faculty and staff colleagues for Wellness Wednesdays.  Each session offers information, resources, and/or immersion into different wellness modalities that are supported at UMBC.

Worries are thoughts we have about the future that generate fear. They arrive in the form of a “what if?” and  generate dire warnings about terrible consequences that await us. Unfortunately, these warnings we give  ourselves are generally overblown and focused on hypothetical problems that probably won’t happen. Chronic  worry that begins to impact the quality of life becomes “anxiety” and well-intended suggestions to “stop  worrying” or applying common stress management techniques are mostly ineffective. This training will address  how worry habits develop and methods of intervening with worry and anxiety.   

At the end of this workshop, you will:

• Understand how worry and anxiety function as a mental habit 
• Learn to distinguish doubt from danger 
• Identify new ways of relating to worry instead of fighting it 
• Be familiar with strategies to acknowledge, accept and work with anxiety