I was anxious as a kid. To avoid my worries, I focused on schoolwork and after-school jobs. At that time, I had no idea my anxiety had meaning and there were things that I could learn about my mind and body that could help me diminish the anxiety I felt in the long term.

I was almost 40 years old before I first came across the Change Triangle. This life-changing education in emotions was part of my training to become an AEDP psychotherapist, a healing-oriented, emotion-centered specialized meth...