Anxiety – Basic Steps Mental Health

Overcoming Anxiety

Scott Alpert — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:00:37 +0000

It’s about time to talk about my battle with anxiety. Anxiety was thought of as a burden that everybody had to carry. I looked at it as the cross I had to bear for the rest of my life. As most of my friends did, I turned to drugs to numb my fears, but after […]

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Life Repeating Itself

Scott Alpert — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:00:24 +0000

It is interesting how my life is repeating itself again which shouldn’t surprise me. In graduate school, we focused our attention on repeating issues, because my professors believed that they were the curriculum of life. In studying Spiritual Psychology the belief is that spiritually speaking, everything is happening in our life for a reason and […]

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The Key to Getting through School

Scott Alpert — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:00:05 +0000

When I was 32 years old, I decided to go back to school and study something I was interested in – Psychology. It had been 10 or so years since I dropped out of Long Beach State, but wanted to get out of the construction trade and knew that I needed to finish my Bachelor’s […]

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Anxiety – A Different Perspective

Scott Alpert — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:00:01 +0000

Anxiety, even the word causes us to hold our breath. Did you know that holding your breath is at the root of the disorder? Holding one’s breath causes the oxygen levels in the body to lower, making the heart work harder and the mind to lose clarity. The antidote is of course breathing, especially deep […]

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The Dentist

Scott Alpert — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:00:52 +0000

Just reading the word dentist has caused a shiver to run through me ever since I was a kid. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had hours and hours of drilling and extractions, and I’ve made my way through it, but it still causes me anxiety. It helps that my best friend is my […]

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Befriending the Problem

Scott Alpert — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 20:30:58 +0000

Whether you suffer from depression, anxiety, mood swings, anger, or substance use, the most important element is befriending it. This may sound rather bizarre since this society basically tries to avoid issues in hopes of them going away. I ask you has it? Our repeating problems are repeating for a reason. In learning from and […]

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A Quick Go-To

Scott Alpert — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 21:00:48 +0000

A friend of mine is a dentist and hired an organization to help him improve the systems in his practice. His company literally exploded overnight and I got him to share a few of the principles with me. One of the concepts was called the Tone Scale. It referred to the emotional tones people will […]

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Independence Day

Scott Alpert — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 03:51:55 +0000

Independence day. They are just two words but emotionally can mean a lot. If you are not independent you are dependent. So what are you dependent on? The definition of Dependence is: The state of being determined, influenced or controlled by something else. The state of being dependent on another for financial support. The condition […]

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Full Circle

Scott Alpert — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 03:46:49 +0000

This week was my father’s 90th birthday. He and I had been on quite a journey together. At first, things were horrible. I later found out that he was going through a horrible marriage, realized that his wife was interested in another man, and didn’t know what to do with his feelings. He broke things, […]

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Coping with Anxiety

Scott Alpert — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 03:59:41 +0000

At the University of Santa Monica, where I studied Spiritual Psychology, they believed that applying love to anxiety made it fade away and we would truly heal. On paper and in real life it has been a difficult task. I entered therapy to tackle my problems with anxiety and the mere task of addressing anxiety […]

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