The Woman Who Worries

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 20, 1912

The Woman Who Worries

How generally brooding eats into the life's usefulness of American women, making impossible clear thought and practical action when comes the need, is little realized, says Anne Shannon Monroe, in the Delineator. Each woman who broods so centers her mind on her own real or fancied wrongs that she becomes incapable of diagnosing her own case, and thus fails to see that she is merely afflicted by a disease common to women, and one that unfortunately she alone can cure. An outsider can do nothing for the woman who broods but awaken her to the terrible habit in the thrall of which she is allowing herself to go to mental ruin. And to break this terrible habit requires as much will-power and self-discipline as to rid one's self of other evil. Here is a psychological fact: Every normal woman has deep buried in her nature a native current that can and should control her life. She has a tendency in some one direction, which can be made to lead her out of any bog in which she may be mired. The first thing, then, is to put your finger on the natural bent of your nature. What do you love best? Where are you the happiest? What work is not toil, but pleasure? Above all else, a heart at peace with God, and an appropriation of the promises of his grace, will prove the great safeguard against worry.—Selected.