Anxiety

These feelings aren’t going away.

The lists of “what-ifs,” “should-of,” and “could-of” keep running.

Sure, you can recognize that a bit of anxiety isn’t bad. Anxiety is a natural response that is helpful and motivating when you need to get things done. Accomplishing those tasks can make you feel good.

But the way you feel goes beyond the ordinary. Something is different, and those feelings are constant, causing you to worry and feel on edge.

The way you feel is too much! You can’t think straight and are constantly preoccupied. You may experience headaches and muscle tension, irritability, trouble sleeping, and hyper-awareness of what’s happening around you. It’s so hard to feel productive or to relax.

Everything seems out of sorts.

You feel disconnected from friends, family, and coworkers.

That internal voice in your brain convinces you that every choice must be perfect or something horrible will happen. Even the fear of something terrible happening causes you to feel overwhelmed, freeze up, and be more difficult to make decisions.

And then you may get super sad and hopeless about everything. You may try to grab at anything you can control, do better at, or worry more about – but the anxiety hamster wheel keeps spinning.

Anxiety is incredibly valid.

But when anxiety becomes BIG (like any emotion), we can’t connect well to the logical part of our brains. These times are when talking about your anxiety and connecting with your body are helpful.

Feeling safe and regulated makes it easier to understand when, where, and why your anxiety shows up the way it does. By gaining understanding, you can put those fears of messing up, hurting someone, being misunderstood, or feeling excluded in the proper perspective.

We may discover better coping methods when we can understand and empathize with these fears and other emotions. By getting to know your anxiety fears better, we can likely uncover different feelings, such as sadness and anger, and hope that maybe the fear you feel wants to protect you.

There are so many possibilities for treating anxiety.

Therapy can help you identify those negative thought patterns and feelings, allowing you to change how you process your anxiety. You can learn to minimize those thoughts that prevent you from moving forward and respond differently to events that trigger your anxiety.

We can work together to identify why you struggle to overcome anxiety.

Persistent anxiety can impact you physically and mentally; dealing with those feelings alone is not the right path.

Contact me today. I have experience helping clients overcome the impact of persistent anxiety, and I would love to walk side by side with you on this journey to healing.