Living With Anxiety Is Hard, but These Habits Have Helped Me Feel More in Control

Here's a new trick that is really helping me limit my anxiety. I'll allow myself 20 minutes to worry and then stop. It seriously works! Giving my mind a set amount of time to focus 100 percent on feeling anxious is better than worrying all day, while also trying to do everything else. Once my 20 minutes is up (I usually do this before bedtime), I force myself to move on. If a worry pops up, I'll remind myself that I already worried — I call it reaching my worry quota — and that I can get back to stressing out tomorrow.