The next time you feel withdrawn, uninterested, preoccupied, or overwhelmed, try giving the frightened parts of your personality the strongest challenge you can.
His classmates' unfettered lives and preoccupied parents feel shallow and insubstantial by comparison.
Out loud she wondered, "when the school season starts, can I pick up the kids early on a weekday and head to the beach?" Our 'always on' society means we don't feel comfortable when we are not busy, preoccupied or accomplishing something.
Why was he so preoccupied with this case, which made him feel "ashamed in front of my children, that their father should be writing about that"?
The more valued, appreciated, cared for and taken care of we feel, the more secure and trusting we become, the less preoccupied by fear, and the more likely we are to generate our highest value.
We think the small countries will feel obliged to make their words count, and will be more preoccupied with their voices than with their sizes.
"The Right Sort" begins as a story of adolescent angst, with Nathan preoccupied by thoughts about his outsiderdom; he recalls episodes of being bullied by his classmates at school, and is sharply aware of how out of place he and his mother, clumsy in a nervous middle-class way, feel at the house of an aristocrat.
"First of all, I'm kind of preoccupied with my financial situation," she said, "and No. 2, five or six years ago I might be able to speak really clearly about how I feel about things, but now I'm just so exhausted with having to explain myself all the time.
For example, if we have a working model of anxious/preoccupied attachment, we will feel that in order to get close to someone and have our needs met, we need to be with our partner all the time and get reassurance.
F: "Even off the court she existed in the zone, which felt like a kind of preoccupied pressure behind her eyebrows, an alert drowsiness or focused dumbness that persisted no matter what she was doing".
