Why Your Secret Hiding Place Holds the Key to Wiping Out Anxiety

What do wildfires, heart attacks, and drunken sailors share in common with anxiety?

They show up unannounced, and you never know what they’re gonna do.

That’s why a hiding place is the difference between stability and a nervous breakdown.

It is a domain for unlimited strength and clarity, an antenna for answers to your biggest problems.

Anxiety you can’t handle

I wish a mentor had told me when I graduated from college, “Son, you have a great future.  It’s tremendously exciting, and the possibilities for your gifts and talents are unlimited.  But, you need an atomic fortress when all hell breaks loose because it’s going to explode often and in ways you can’t imagine.”

On second thought, I’m glad no one told me that because I probably would have holed up on a sailboat in the BVI for the rest of my life.

The BVI melts anxiety
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Cross this bridge and thrive over troubled waters

Bridge Over Troubled Water, the celebrated song by Simon & Garfunkel, is a compass.

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Whatever you’re trying to find, look for . . .

  • loyalty . . . I’m on your side
  • compassion . . . I will comfort you
  • encouragement . . . Sail on silver girl
  • vision . . . All your dreams are on their way
  • companionship . . . I’m sailing right behind

. . . and you will thrive over troubled water.

Untold millions recall the song’s August 1970 release as it inspires hope.

Last Christmas, our family watched the CBS special, Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon.

We found three treasures in what Stevie Wonder calls “one of the most beautiful songs ever written.”

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