The Anxiety Trap: Why Fighting Makes It Worse

In this solo episode, the host of The Stoic Handbook shares a personal breakthrough with chronic anxiety. After years of trying to control a background hum of hypervigilance, they discovered that fighting it only made it worse. The key was a Stoic-Nietzschean reframe: amor fati, the love of fate. By welcoming anxiety instead of resisting it, the grip loosened.