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What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You About Your Anxiety
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapist in Westfield, NJ Anxiety doesn't just live in your head. It lives in your body, too. Many people are surprised to learn that the stomach problems, muscle tension, headaches, and fatigue they've been dealing with for years are...
Why Women Carry So Much, a Look at Mental Load and Anxiety
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapist in Westfield, NJ You're in the middle of a conversation and half your brain is somewhere else, running through tomorrow's schedule, remembering you need to call the pediatrician, mentally meal planning for the week, trying to...
Social Anxiety Isn’t Shyness
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapist in Westfield, NJ "I've always been shy" is something I hear often from clients who come to see me for anxiety therapy in Westfield, NJ. And sometimes, yes, shyness is just part of someone's temperament. But other times, what...
What’s the Difference between Anxiety and Intuition?
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapist in Westfield, NJ "Is this my gut telling me something? Or is it just my anxiety?" This is one of the questions I hear most often from clients in my Westfield, NJ therapy practice. And it's a genuinely difficult one, because...
High-Functioning Anxiety, You Look Fine But Feel Anything But
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapist in Westfield, NJ From the outside, everything looks great. You're meeting deadlines, keeping commitments, showing up for everyone in your life. But on the inside? You're exhausted, worried, and running on a constant hum of...
How to Interrupt the Spiral of Anxiety
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapist in Westfield, NJ You know the feeling. One small worry leads to another, and before you know it, you're catastrophizing about something that hasn't even happened yet. That's the anxiety spiral and if you've experienced it,...
Why Anxiety Gets Worse at Night
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapy in Westfield, NJ It’s 2am. The house is quiet. Everyone else is asleep. And your brain has chosen this exact moment to replay that awkward thing you said at dinner three weeks ago, catastrophize tomorrow’s meeting, and run a...
When One Partner Has Anxiety and the Other Doesn’t
You love each other. That part isn’t in question. But something is off. One of you lies awake running through worst-case scenarios while the other falls asleep in minutes. One of you needs to talk through every worry before you can move on; the other can’t understand...
People-Pleasing Is Just Anxiety in Disguise
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapy in Westfield, NJ You say yes when you mean no. You apologize for things that aren’t your fault. You spend more mental energy managing everyone else’s feelings than you do your own. And when you do finally hold a boundary, or...
Intrusive Thoughts and Anxiety, What is Actually Happening in Your Brain
By Jill Giuliano, LCSW | Anxiety Therapy in Westfield, NJ You’re holding your newborn and out of nowhere, a horrifying thought flashes through your mind. You’re driving over a bridge and your brain offers up something you immediately wish it hadn’t. You’re in the...
