Anxiety isn’t nice. I spent so long living in anxiety. I had tried fighting it until it felt like I’d lost and anxiety totally took control. I felt stuck, lost, exhausted and had no idea how to change any of that.
You would never have known any of that though, because to the outside world I had it all together and was living my best life! Oh how clever we are at hiding it.
Looking back, I realise now I had everything I needed to change that experience any time I wanted, but no one tells you that (well no one told me!).
Tools are great, they help you to feel more resourced in any given moment, but we have to go deeper than that in order to change our relationship with anxiety.
We need to learn to work with anxiety and all of our emotions. When we do, we learn from them, they teach us so much but when we’re trying to get rid of an emotion or ignore it, we never take the lesson.
Anxiety has taught me about how I was viewing the world, about how I was not feeling safe in life and by working with anxiety I now have a totally different experience in life and feel way happier and freer because of it. I’m human though and so anxiety still shows up, that’s ok. I listen to and take the message to move through it.
Working with your emotions changes everything! It is so important and yet we never get taught this.
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