Instead of getting recharged, you spend the weekend nervously checking emails, replaying tiny mistakes from the last week, and obsessing over your next week’s schedule. By Sunday night, all you’ve done for the previous two days is stress about work, and then it’s on to another week. How can you stop this dreaded cycle?

Trauma can be transmitted from one generation to the next, impacting individuals within a family lineage. Intergenerational trauma recognizes the potential for the emotional, psychological, and even physiological effects of trauma to be experienced by individuals who did not directly experience the traumatic event themselves. It highlights the ongoing impact of past traumatic events on subsequent generations.

Knowing that someone you care for has anxiety is hard to deal with. We don’t want to watch someone suffer or feel on edge constantly. But, at the same time, we often don’t know how to help someone deal with their anxiety. There never seem to be any right words that will magically make it better. As much as most of us wish there were a magic wand to help with anxiety, there isn’t one. However, that doesn’t mean there are no ways to help with anxiety.

Supporting someone with anxiety is a little easier than many people think. Here are four soothing ways to help.

Most people have heard of a panic attack and have a general idea of what that means. But when they hear the words anxiety attack, they assume it means the same thing. However, anxiety attacks can be viewed as something different than panic attacks.