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Anxiety

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A piece of me died in 2018

2018 was a groundbreaking and messed up year. Life was not easily falling into place… life was not in flow. I was doing all of the “right things”: I was living life the way I “successfully” had in the past; applying a similar formula for success. But I still felt so uneasy… as if I was pushing against a brick wall. Everything I accomplished seemed only to come as the result of a lot of hard work, time, and exhaustion. Anything I wanted to achieve only seemed to happen through struggle. I executed a new marketing plan. I switched up my…

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How Trying to Feel Better is Actually Making You Feel Worse

“I shouldn’t feel this way,”  I silently told myself. “I should really be more grateful. Look at all the stuff I have to be grateful for! What’s wrong with me? Ok… ok… ok… what do I need to do to feel more grateful?” THIS is the conversation loop that swirls through my head when I’m feeling a way I think I shouldn’t be feeling. At first blush of a painful, inconvenient feeling should we not be stammering to: a walk, a call with a friend, an uplifting podcast or Youtube video? I certainly thought so. But maybe aggressively trying to…

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