This past week, I had my weekly therapy session, and I went into it being like I don’t need this. I thought I had nothing to talk about. It’s definitely not the best mindset to enter therapy, but I thought…
Feeling Loved
This was my second year feeling some birthday anxiety. Anyone else get anxiety about turning another year older? I’m almost positive I had a quarter-life crisis leading up to my 26th birthday last year. One of the biggest stressors was…
Feeling Blessed
I took this past week off of work. In my 4.5 years of employment post college, I’ve never taken a vacation. My anxiety has always gotten in the way of me taking more than 1-2 days off of work. I’ve…
Feeling Triumphant
It officially marks one year since my first panic attack that led me a visit to the ER. The next few months that followed were the hardest I ever had to deal with. I couldn’t bear to be alone. I…
Feeling Grateful
In the past year, I’ve struggled A LOT with flying, which I have never had a problem with before. The anticipation leading up to the day of my departure to sitting at the airport, everything about it puts a massive…
Dear Anxiety. . .
Dear Anxiety, I’ve been back home the past few weeks and in my free time, I’ve been reminiscing on my childhood. I’ve spent hours enjoying looking at old pics, reading notes from friends and going through old yearbooks. I came…
Feeling Proud
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve had many accomplishments thus far, but to be completely honest, I don’t think I have truly felt pride in those moments. I was happy to make my family happy when I graduated high school and…