Intrusive Thoughts & Why We Have Them
From the moment you get up in the morning until your head hits the pillow, your mind produces an average of 70,000 thoughts. There are 86,400 seconds in a day, so that’s a lot of thoughts! Because we live in a…
A Quick Guide To Trauma Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn
How The Body Responds To Trauma We’ve all been in situations where our bodies seem to react – or not react – before we even get a chance to think. A car suddenly stops in front of you, so you…
Re-Entry Anxiety: How To Cope with Lockdowns and Re-Openings
After a year of living in a global pandemic, we’re finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel: post-vaccination life. Many places around the world are gearing up to open society back up again, which –…
Coping Strategies For Stress And Anxiety
I have always seen the value in writing as a form of self-expression. In my saddest and happiest moments, I turned my eye to my bookshelf, picked up my journal or my poetry book and documented my feelings of that…
How Living With Anxiety Affects Your Health
Living with anxiety. We often hear about, or even experience for ourselves, the ghastly chest compressing fear that comes with doing things we aren’t used to doing, meeting new people, or going to new places. It is difficult to not…
How To Treat Anxiety Naturally: 4 Ways To Deal With Anxiety
Being wary of people, places, and situations is not inherently negative behavior. If you really think about it, giving yourself the chance to think things through may actually be one of the best ways to avoid or remove yourself from…