{"id":2986,"date":"2024-05-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2024-04-18T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:13:37","slug":"avoiding-anxiety-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/avoiding-anxiety-traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Anxiety Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As leaders, we sometimes make ourselves unnecessarily anxious by focusing too much on negative thoughts that lead to &#8220;all or nothing&#8221; conclusions. We can also be prone to over-generalization of situations, which prevents us from seeing opportunities and solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LaRae Quy <\/strong>spent over 20 years as an FBI undercover and counterintelligence agent, primarily exposing foreign spies and flipping them to work for America. She describes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartbrief.com\/original\/how-anxiety-traps-you-and-how-to-break-free?\">four common anxiety traps<\/a> that can hobble our effectiveness, then shares specific strategies for dealing with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the role of educational administrators becomes increasingly stressful, these helpful ideas may provide exactly the tool you need to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As leaders, we sometimes make ourselves unnecessarily anxious by focusing too much on negative thoughts that lead to &#8220;all or nothing&#8221; conclusions. We can also be prone to over-generalization of situations, which prevents us from seeing opportunities and solutions. LaRae Quy spent over 20 years as an FBI undercover and counterintelligence agent, primarily exposing foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[575,579,578,577,576,581,580,130],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anxiety","tag-black-or-white-thinking","tag-catastrophizing","tag-fbi","tag-larae-quy","tag-mind-reading","tag-overgeneralizing","tag-stress","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}