Taming the Wild Fires of Anxiety
If we could see anxiety, I wonder if it would look like a fire — burning red hot at the core with the flames lashing out around our upper body and the top of our head. A wild fire burning …
Following Your Heart
As we navigate life we are exposed to so much technology, information, scheduling demands, family drama, and our own limiting beliefs. This can all be very heavy on our heart. The busy-ness keeps us on a cognitive superhighway – stuck …
Mindful Moments
My brain seems to be constantly on overdrive. I’m an expert at overthinking and overanalyzing. Planning, preparing, catastrophizing. My brain just physically HURTS sometimes. I try my best to remember the concept of mindfulness when my brain seems to be …
Discovering a Path to Positive Change
Thank you for taking a few minutes to read my blog! You may have seen me present on anxiety education over the past few years or followed these posts for social anxiety disorder awareness. These posts will continue to focus …
Strength through Vulnerability
Earlier today, as I sat in the peacefulness of my family cabin while my son and husband ventured out into the woods for deer hunting, I gazed out the window at the bare, leafless trees with their branches openly exposed …
Life Under Construction
Driving through a long-term construction project recently, I remembered how people slowed down so much when it first started. Traffic backups were a regular occurrence. Now, as people have had a chance to adjust to the temporary chaos, the traffic …
Breaking Through Anxiety
For someone dealing with anxiety, the anxious thoughts overpower mind and body. Often this “anxious self” becomes the person people see – the person we become. As we try to fit into societal and corporate norms when dealing with a …
You Are Good Enough
Why do many people, myself included, find it so easy to find fault in ourselves? Having thoughts like, “I eat too much ice cream” or “I don’t exercise enough” or “I am not good enough”. Why is so difficult to focus …
Behind the Mask – Finding The Authentic You
How many times has someone asked you, “How’s your day going?”, and you replied with a smile and said “good” while inside you were battling a rollercoaster of emotions related to depression or anxiety? Many of us keep our struggles …
Calming the Storms of an Anxious Mind
Anxiety is powerful and intense. For someone with anxiety, when these feelings arise, it is like a storm brewing inside. We try to resist it, but it’s no use sometimes because we allow the negative thoughts to take hold and …