Roy Campanella was a Hall of Fame baseball catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s and 50s and his career ended when he had a car accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. He was being treated in a New York rehab hospital and had really turned inside himself: He didn’t want […]
anxiety, worry
In Norman Cousins’ classic bestseller Anatomy of an Illness is Perceived by the Patient, he describes how he overcame a debilitating disease by using, among other things, high doses of laughter. He did that by watching funny movies and television shows to increase the amount that he would laugh because that was shown to have […]
anxiety, comedy, happiness, laughter
If you’re feeling a little extra anxiety these days, that’s completely understandable. Anxiety is, among other things, worry about future events, about which we feel we have no control. And you may notice that accompanying that feeling is a sort of nervous energy, this extra energy we have, that we don’t know what to do […]
activity, anxiety, Stress, stress management