Anxiety

Anyone who has struggled with anxiety knows how debilitating it can be. It can feel like your mind won't slow down or your body is constantly on edge. It can affect your sleep, your relationships, your confidence, and your ability to enjoy everyday life. For many, it even seems to grow exponentially and develop into anxiety about your anxiety. For some, this can even build to panic attacks.

Fortunately, we know a lot about the anxiety symptoms and there are many strategies to manage anxious thoughts, soothe your body, and regain a sense of balance and control that can help someone reduce the impact of these symptoms.

Strategies include:

• Understanding how your brain creates anxiety by interpreting danger,
• Developing breathing, meditation, life-style changes or movement strategies for deactivating the fight-flight-freeze mechanism in your brain,
• Looking at the internal dialogue that is unintentionally supporting the anxiety and learning ways to shift those patterns,
• Creating ways to experience small successes that build confidence to dismantle the internal critic's tendency to future-cast danger,
• Understanding the vulnerable parts of you that need protection and nurturing from your confident core to feel safe enough to face the challenges.

Together, we will work to help you feel more at ease, more present, and more like yourself again so you can have the life you hope for, unburdened by anticipatory fear.