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“I have anxiety.” It’s a phrase I hear regularly; as a therapist and honestly, as a person myself. It’s become such a common way to describe our experience that we rarely stop to think about the language we’re using. Working with people through Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy, I’ve noticed something important… the word ‘have’ can unintentionally give anxiety far more power than it deserves. When we say “I have anxiety”, it sounds as though anxiety is something fixed. Somet