As most of you gathered from my last post— and newsletter subscribers have been getting even more content on this– I’m been having a tough winter. I’m burned out, occasionally anxious, often depressed. I’m still functioning, but struggling. Why? Well, because I’m a public school teacher and a mother of two young children, both of […]
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My Dumb Anxious Brain
My dumb anxious brain wakes me at 4AM worrying about the schedule for a school event that will take place three weeks from now. I tell my brain to go back to sleep. Instead, it drafts an email to the person in charge of the event, wanting details. I tell my brain that I do […]
Anxiety Management: 3 Practical Tips
I have occasional anxiety, so I’ve had to learn a few anxiety management methods. Today, I employed three of them, and my resultant day felt a lot less difficult. I woke up this morning with the prickle in my brain that told me anxiety was making itself at home. Thoughts and plans and ideas whirred […]
Super-Anxiety Deflector Girl!
There are anxious people in my life. This wouldn’t be a problem, except that I’m also a naturally anxious person who has worked very very hard to be less anxious, and I’m also a naturally empathetic person who easily absorbs emotions coming from others– including anxiety. When I’m with anxious people, no matter how much […]
The Path of Anxiety in my Mind
I would not classify myself as an anxious person, but I do have a predisposition towards feeling anxiety once in awhile. When I’m feeling anxiety, there’s an unnaturalness in my brain, a threat of unpredictability in the world, and an extra layer over my reactions to people and events. My brain catches all of my […]
Meditation Saved Me
Last Monday, my 15 month old daughter went in for surgery on her kidneys and bladder. They told us it would take 4-5 hours; we ended up waiting for more than 7. There were periodic calls from inside the OR, assuring us that everything was going well, but it was still an agonizing time. I expected […]