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[quote=Anonymous]I couldn't decide whether to put this in the health section or adult children but decided to put it here, though this is a question related to anxiety.

What “self-talk” do you use to help yourself disengage in your mind from worry about your adult children?

I know that people, like myself, who are vulnerable to anxiety can worry about anything and everything. I find during these transition times of moving back from college (so nice to have DC home!), moving again in a couple of weeks for a summer job (so many moving parts! Am I doing too much or too little?!), I have lots of worries about near future and distant future (will DC be ok? What does that even mean?) rattling around in my head about my 20-year-old. I know it's not rational, meaning it's not rational because DC is doing well/great/fine + I can't control things anyway.

Just looking for a crowdsourced boost of ways to counterbalance irrational worries/perspective/grounding/etc. And, as I'm typing this all out I think I'm also looking to know that I'm not alone. I know these are not helpful or particularly rational thoughts but, it's almost like with so much going well and all this potential and possibility, my mind then thinks about everything in the future and all at once. WTH?! :)
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