Making Peace With Anxiety
Anxiety is one of the most common struggles. It is also very treatable. From stress, fear of public speaking, social anxiety to chronic tension, anxiety can deter you from throughly enjoying your life experiences. Getting help in treating your anxiety not only will bring you a sense of peace, but will help you focus all that energy into creating the life you crave.
There are so many powerful tools that a therapist can introduce to you to help reduce your anxious feelings. Not only will you uncover the root cause of your anxiety and what it is trying to tell you, but you will be guided in tools to immediately feel less tension.
If you can imagine anxiety acting as an armor of protection that is trying to prevent you from experiencing other difficult feelings, then you will realize how important it is to allow and address all feelings. The process of therapy in itself and being allowed to express feelings can be a mindful activity that helps to remove this armor and thus reduce the nervous energy it takes to just keep the armor up! Through the therapy process, our brain gets rewired and it realizes that it does not have to send alarm signals every time we have a feeling.
Here is a poem I wrote that might help you understand anxiety.
The Elephant in The Room
Stones of anxiety appear in your spirit delighting in crushing your thoughts with overwhelm.
“Disengage” “Disengage” “Disengage!!” “Don’t give it the attention it craves because it will only grow”you fiercely assert.
But no. The opposite is true.
When you welcome and accept the worry and overwhelm is when your inner child feels like the spotlight is finally on her. Your inner child is ready to shine and beyond grateful that the sun is finally asking them what is making their soul stormy.
Befriend the elephant of anxiety.
It may feel like "anxiety" rocks are filling up your soul with worried energy.
Feelings of apprehension and disenchantment don’t discriminate in age, race, or religion. It is a force within you roaring like an elephant to give you a message.
If you slam the door on it, it will roar and pound louder until you will be forced to collapse behind the door, grasping for air that will normalize you. Pay attention to and ask why the elephant is behind the door.
And how did it appear in the room, pounding on your chest.
What is it yearning for?
