sense of safety, countering the sense of threat that characterizes anxiety. Not least, play is the antithesis of anxiety. Any activity that involves play—whether tossing around a ball with kids or friends, engaging in boardgames with a partner, or doing crossword puzzles by oneself provide ...
a crossword puzzle or something that she could focus on while waiting for friends at a meeting place. In the ten to fifteen minutes she may be waiting for a friend to come over, she would dust her ornaments, mop the kitchen floor and tidy her magazine basket. Her friends told her that...