Keep Calm - Are You An Anxious Scanner?
In this episode, Lou Huesmann unpacks a Substack post by Kathleen Smith called "Turning Off Your Anxious Scanner." In it Smith talks about the anxious habit of "scanning" - the emotionally driven monitoring of others - where, she states, the boundaries between our responsibility and others' blur. Lou connects scanning with overfunctioning - looking for something to fix in someone else - and points out that anxiety triggers us to focus on others and try to control them.
He shares, "I think it's easy to see people as characters - actors - in our own story and then to treat them as such as…
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