Anthony Maranise, M.A., BCC is the author of the award-winning Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer & Christian Spirituality as well as a certified life-coach, spiritual theologian, and 21+ year leukemia survivor. He is a doctoral scholar in Interdisciplinary Leadership at Creighton University (Omaha, NE).
The “cure” to alleviating the negative impacts of such heightened anxiety or depression is mindfulness, meditative practice. Mindfulness focuses on the present.