I hurt my husband regularly. It’s never intentional or malicious, but it’s true. Well, I guess it’s not really me – but my sickness. I have anxiety. Not the ‘butterflies in the stomach’ kind, either. More like the ‘sometimes I only sleep a couple hours for days on end’ kind.
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How to Sleep with Anxiety
Of all the lessons I’ve learned, how to sleep with anxiety is definitely one of the most difficult. For me, most nights are filled with tossing, turning and stifling panic attacks to avoid waking my husband. In fact, almost every panic attack I endure is at night, when I should be sleeping. However, after years of learning how to sleep with anxiety, here’s some things that work for me:
Continue reading “How to Sleep with Anxiety”Breaking Free- Give Yourself Permission to be Unwell
Give yourself permission to be unwell. It’s a lesson I’m learning every day, but not always succeeding at accomplishing. Maybe because it’s so difficult to accept that I’m sick sometimes. Just recently though, life gave me the opportunity to learn a lesson.
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Seven tips for mental and emotional survival during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
In recent times, it seems the only thing anyone is able to talk about is the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social media and news outlets are completely inundated with updates surrounding the pandemic, and fear is spreading more quickly than the virus itself. But almost no one is talking about emotional survival of COVID-19.
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I remember the first time I had a panic attack, though I didn’t know what it was at that time. It was the beginning of Fall in Montana and anyone who lives here knows that the biggest problem during these months is usually forest fires. They rage on and on and for myself and many others, the worst part about them is Continue reading “What I Learned From My First Panic Attack”