ANXIETY
Anxiety doesn’t always make a lot of sense.
Some people feel anxiety when there’s a test, they’re running late, or they have an unpleasant social interaction coming.
But sometimes you feel anxiety for no reason at all.
You’ll be doing something you always do, driving, watching TV at home, out with friends – so why does it feel like something bad is going to happen? You become aware of your heartbeat, there’s tension in your shoulders, but there isn’t anything bad happening.
You just have this amorphous sense of dread. A kind of numb yet buzzing feeling, an over awareness of discomfort in your body.
You feel helpless.
Unable to act. At its mercy.
There have been portions of days or whole days lost in this sinking feeling. Times where you could barely get through the day, or had to stay home, or couldn’t finish things that really needed to get done.
If there is a reason for anxiety, yours is WAY worse than other people experience.
Other people can go to a party, call the dentist, or write a report.
But your brain plays cruel tricks on you, swirling predictions of disaster like a tornado in your mind.
“What if I’ve got nothing to say and people think I’m boring? What if I need a root canal, and it will hurt so much and be so expensive? What if I’ll never be able to measure up to my peers?”
So, you just stay frozen, in a state of anxiety, unable to do anything about it.
How many things have you missed out on because of your anxiety?
Will this still be happening a year from now? In five years? In 20?
If you don’t do something, this could happen for the rest of your life.
There is help. There is hope.
I’ve been open with my clients from the very start – I struggle with anxiety myself. Every day I use my coping skills and prevention methods to care for myself and kick anxiety’s butt.
Some days I’m more successful than others, but my experiences have made me intimately familiar with the havoc anxiety can wreak on your life and what it takes to get it under control.
The good news is anxiety is highly treatable.
There are hundreds of coping skills that really work in reducing anxiety, and I will help you find the ones that help you the most.
Some people take to meditations, others starting an exercise regimen, others mentally walking through stressful upcoming events to prepare. I don’t give the same treatment to every client. My goal is to find what works for you and to help you use those skills to start living the life you want. Because it doesn’t matter if meditation has been shown to reduce anxiety if you hate meditation.
I will teach you how to soothe anxiety when it crops up and will work with you to make an action plan that prevents excess anxiety in the future.
Take control of your life.