What brings you joy?
Imagine you are back in a situation when you felt true joy throughout your entire body and mind. The goosebumps, happy tears and belly laughs type of joy. What was it about this experience that made it joyful? What would …
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Your Thoughts — Fact or Fiction
Have you had challenges with negative, worrisome thoughts which are truly fictional (when you can view them objectively)? Do you recognize when your thoughts are truly a fact? Where do these fictional thoughts come from? And, why is it so …
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 …