The Anxiety DivaI've had anxiety for as long as I could remember and my number one goal is to help people through their anxiety challenges by telling my story.
My back hurts. My face hurts. My jaw is sore. My neck is stiff. Anxiety is a condition that not only affects you in a cognitive sense but also affects you physically. I suffer from chronic aches and pains on an almost daily basis. I frequently get headaches, muscle spasms, jaw pain, neck pain, and […]
I have been told many many times in the past that I can get so angry. I remember fighting with my high school sweetheart and him telling me that I am such an angry person and I would cry explaining how I had no idea why. It wasn’t until years later when I finally realized […]
When I think about myself I do not think of myself as a person who is capable of depression. I think of myself as anxious but not depressed. When I go to the doctor’s office and fill out new paperwork and there is a checkbox next to depression I am always hesitant to check it. […]
I say this often but healing is not linear. We all heal in different ways and some of us never heal at all. Since I started getting help for my anxiety I thought it would be easy. I thought I would take the medicine, practice the yoga, do the meditations, and exercise daily and I […]
The emerging blogger series is aimed at community building through giving mental health bloggers who are early in their blogging evolution the … Emerging Blogger Series: The Anxiety Diva
When I started therapy 2 years ago, I was lost. I knew I needed help but couldn’t imagine what I could learn in therapy that would actually help me in real life. Then my therapist suggested I start a journal. My first thought was I am 28 years old and you want me to have […]
I will be the first one to tell you that I have social anxiety and have been having it for a very long time. I will also tell you I am super friendly and talkative. Doesn’t make sense right? The definition of social anxiety disorder is a chronic medical health condition in which social interactions […]
If you have read any of my other posts you already know I suffer with chronic anxiety. When my anxiety gets really bad, I get depressed and the cycle continues. When the coronavirus hit New Orleans things got bad quick. The life I was living was cut off and my husband was put in harm’s […]
I have been anxious since I was a child. I was very shy until I got to really know you. I would cry and plead to stay home if there was something going on at school that I did not want to attend (birthday luncheons were the worst for me). I was called goody two-shoes […]
If you have ever struggled with anxiety you know that you probably also deal with a lot of negative thoughts. For me, I was dealing with negative thoughts all day everyday. I couldn’t seem to shake the feeling that I was the worst person ever and everything I did was wrong and my life sucked. […]
