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DR. JANTZ BLOG

Bind Your Happiness to God’s Approval
Over and over again, I have heard the anguished cry of someone saying to me, "But it's not fair!" Often I cannot offer them...

When Risk-Seeking Crosses the Line
Risk-seekers can become addicted to much more than gambling. Risk-seeking becomes addictive when the risk behaviors cross the line into danger or obsession. Helping...

Rewriting Anxiety’s Script
What do actors do when they get a new script? In my limited theatrical experience, which happened far longer ago than I care to...

Four Tips for Managing Your Anxiety
Anxieties often start in the mind and fast-forward to the body, resulting in rapid breathing, or hyperventilation. When you hyperventilate, you take in more...

Anxiety: Accept the Small Stuff
One of the mistaken beliefs surrounding anxiety is that everything that happens centers around you. This mistaken belief can take on a life of...

The Rise in Prescription Antidepressants
While there is no dispute that the incidence of depression is growing, the response to this growth is changing. The trend has been away...

Whole-Person Approach to Treating Depression
In a whole-person treatment approach, the entire body is recognized as an important component in depression. The whole-person approach accepts the body as a...

Baby Steps Toward Healing
Perhaps you are a single mother who is working full time. Your kids are with a babysitter or in day care all day. You...

Self-Medicating Anxiety Through Anger
Rarely do people just feel anxious. Most often, their anxiety is coupled with other addictions or issues that are either related or coping mechanisms...

Overcoming Panic Attacks
It all started with an elevator. Janice was taking the elevator up to her usual floor at work one day when the elevator malfunctioned....

Finding Recovery Strength through God
Recovery form an eating disorder or disordered eating—reconstruction—is an “inside-out” job. And the job is not complete until you have cleaned out emotionally, physically,...

Rebuilding the Body’s Digestion System After an Eating Disorder
Eating disorders can wreak havoc on all aspects of a person’s life: their mental wellness, emotional balance, relationships with the people around them, and...