How To Talk To Children About A Pandemic
What to Expect When You’re Expecting is going to have to add a chapter to their book cause no one prepared us for this ?. I can honestly say that this is the weirdest thing that has ever happened in our lives. PANDEMIC, CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19…our children will never forget these names. Like the Bay Area […]
What is Anxiety anyways?
That nagging feeling that the other shoe is about to fall, the catastrophic thought that the plane might crash, a restlessness that keeps you up at night from a brain that won’t turn off…. all of these are symptoms of anxiety. I’ve felt these symptoms more then I’d like to admit. Learning where the root […]
Lessons From A Neurotic Therapist: 5 Ways To Endure A Panic Attack
My palms were sweaty, my heart was pounding, I felt like I was coming out of my body hovering over the whole embarrassing scene. I looked at the woman next to me with saucer eyes and said, “I’m so sorry you have to sit next to the crazy lady with a newborn.” I was holding […]
My Journey with Anxiety: The Reckoning
Last week I wrote about my anxiety here for the first time and whoa it felt good. Thank you all for your supportive and loving comments, they meant so much to me and have encouraged me to keep sharing my story with you. So for about the last 5 years my anxiety that started as […]
My journey with anxiety: The Beginning
Anxiety and I have become friends in the last month… strange I know but I’m done denying her presence in my life and I’m done trying to protect myself from fear, pain, and even joy. I never had anxiety before becoming a mother… depression yes I dealt with my share of depression, but it was […]
Living in the Sunshine
I want to open my heart up to you. I hope that doing so will solidify this moment in my brain; that I will hold onto hope instead of the fiction in my mind, and possibly encourage you as well to live in the sunshine. I just experienced a moment of reprieve from the anxiety that has […]
