In Search of Gumption

In Search of Gumption

Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom

On reframing stress and making better health choices

Oct 05, 2025
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Would you rather have anxiety and freedom, or no anxiety and no freedom?
That’s not just a rhetorical question. It’s a decision most of us are making unconsciously every day.

Could anxiety be the threshold to freedom?

Could the current medical establishment — with its mandate to eradicate the “disorder” of anxiety — be eroding our collective willpower?

Tod…

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