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How Anxiety Traps People And How You Can Break Free

How Anxiety Traps People And How You Can Break Free

by Larae Quy | Jun 9, 2025 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

At the FBI Academy, new agents like myself spent five months role-playing, alternating between being the bad guy who needed to be arrested and the good guy whose job it was to take scum off the streets. The role-playing was meant to instill confidence in ourselves...
Want To Stay Cool Under Pressure? 4 Ways You Can Be Mentally Tough

Want To Stay Cool Under Pressure? 4 Ways You Can Be Mentally Tough

by Larae Quy | Mar 7, 2025 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

I’m not a natural athlete. This sad fact became evident at a very inconvenient time—my first day of new agent training at the FBI Academy. New agents are tested in physical fitness and required to accumulate certain points in different areas. I landed at the bottom in...
6 Ways You Can Reduce Anxiety And Make Gratitude A Stronger Emotion

6 Ways You Can Reduce Anxiety And Make Gratitude A Stronger Emotion

by Larae Quy | Mar 16, 2024 | Anxiety, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

I grew up with a strong sense of right and wrong, and those values impacted my deepest beliefs about my behavior. They guided my decisions, including the one to become an FBI agent at the age of twenty-five. While values and morals are related, they differ because...
4 Effective and Easy Ways To Relieve Stress At Work

4 Effective and Easy Ways To Relieve Stress At Work

by Larae Quy | Sep 26, 2021 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

Feeling stressed? Join the crowd. No matter your viewpoint on what’s going on in the world, the reality is that you have burdens a little closer to home—as parents, leaders, students, or simply as adults who need to pay bills and navigate the complexity of your...
The Most Common Well-Being Advice That Doesn’t Work

The Most Common Well-Being Advice That Doesn’t Work

by Larae Quy | Sep 12, 2021 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

The self-help industry is a booming business. It’s made celebrities out of people with minor talent but a major understanding of how to capitalize on the problems of others. God knows from under which rock some of these people come, but their good fortune is the...
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