ANXIETY AND STRESS
Anxiety and Stress situation…
You lay down to sleep at night filled with HOPE that you will easily drift off, but… experience has taught you that doesn’t tend to be the case.
Thoughts of the day fill your head, but you’re your mind creeps back even further to the past SEVERAL days, mistakes you’ve made, the ways you’ve let people down, what you could have done differently.
When you do fall asleep, it’s fitful, and you wake up in the morning feeling even MORE tired and dreading the start of another day.
Sometimes it’s takes ALL your energy to get out of bed. You feel paralyzed at what’s coming down the path for that day, tomorrow, the week… You make it through getting yourself ready for work, taking care of kids’ stuff, but you aren’t present during it all. It’s more like a daze.
Anxiety and Stress struggle…
Each moment feels suffocating. The what ifs are closing in and you are sinking under the weight of them.
Worry may not be a strong enough word, but you do that too. You worry about your family, maybe your relationship and whether you are as connected as you could be. If there are kids in the picture, you wonder about their grades, how truthful they are about where they go and what they do. Are you doing all you can as a parent?
Then the answer in that voice in your head is a resounding “Of course not! There are a million things I could be doing better and differently.” It’s impossible to let yourself off the hook. Then the shame starts. That critical voice in your head hammers you with all the observations of your mistakes until you are either in tears, reaching for a drink or lying in the fetal position on the bed.
Anxiety and Stress Solution…
You are NOT alone. It’s SO hard - the weight you’re carrying and the persistent lump in your stomach and fluttering in your chest.
What if you could go to sleep easily at night? Imagine if you could actually be present in the moment to enjoy a conversation or a walk outside. Imagine your heart not always feeling like it’s beating 1000 times per minute.
I want to give you some tools to deal with the symptoms, BUT I also want us to understand what’s at the root of your anxiety. Sure I can give you breathing techniques and guided meditations and I WILL, but we don’t want to just put a band aid on it.
Let’s figure out how that critical voice got lodged in there, so we can pull it out by the root. We will explore what’s going on in your mind and body because anxiety and stress are holistic experiences and I believe we need to treat them as both.