The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

The Anxiety Trap: Why Fighting Makes It Worse

May 6, 2026·12 min
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Watch the video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/cY4AMcWhSko --- For most of my adult life, I had this low-level hypervigilance running in the background. I tried everything to fight it — books, breathwork, control techniques, willpower. The harder I fought, the worse it got. In this episode, I share the breakthrough that came when I stopped fighting and started welcoming. It's a Stoic-Nietzschean reframe called amor fati — the love of ...

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