Express your dread through creative activities like writing or drawing.
Writing, even in simple forms like haikus or limericks, can externalize and manage dread.
Humor can be incorporated to lighten the emotional weight of dread.
Drawing, including doodling, can help disengage from analytical thinking and process dread non-verbally.
No artistic skill is required for these activities; the focus is on expression, not perfection.
Example: Writing a poem or haiku about your dread; Doodling your dread
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The list of things we dread is almost endless: the Sunday scaries, deadlines, climate change — the list goes on. How can we feel better? Saleem Reshamwala, host of the podcast More Than a Feeling, shares practices for managing that nagging feeling of impending doom. The episode originally published November 28, 2022.