Pseudo-anxiety and the Ions JOURNAL
Pseudo-anxiety and the IONs: The Companion Journal
This guided journal is your space to apply the TRAP Method—tracking your triggers, reactions, and progress as you uncover your own IONs: AggressION, ManipulatION, AttentION, and more. With daily prompts, progress trackers, and reflection pages, it helps you turn awareness into action and rewrite your reactions from fear to freedom.
WTF is Wrong With You?!: A survival guidebook to Karens, Pseudo-anxiety, and Everyday Meltdowns
WTF Is Wrong With You? (Spoiler: It’s Fear) is a handbook for surviving — and laughing at — the age of public meltdowns. Using the cultural archetype of “Karen” as both comic relief and cautionary tale, Cory Nicolas, LMHC, reveals the psychology beneath the rage: pseudoanxiety.
Through the TRAP Method (Triggers, Reactions, Assessment, and Process), Nicolas explains how unresolved childhood experiences — the “Hurt Locker” we all carry — fuel the defensive behaviors that show up as entitlement, aggression, and control. From Costco mask fights to coupon wars, each story mixes satire with clinical insight, reminding us that Karens aren’t monsters; they’re people trapped in fear.
This book blends humor, survival guides, and practical exercises to help readers recognize their own “Karen moments” — and rewrite them. Because the real answer to “WTF is wrong with you?” isn’t rage or entitlement. It’s fear, and fear can be unlearned.