It has been almost an entire year since I have posted on this blog. A lot has happened over the last year! I’d like to think I have been growing as a person, and I have been evolving in to the person whom I want to become. As with anything though, there has been upsContinue reading “It Has Been a Year”
Category Archives: mental health
Dealing With Anxiety Attacks
For those of you who don’t know what an anxiety attack feels like…. Mine go something like this. First the trigger happens… your heart rate ramps up to about 120bpm, your feet and hands start to tingle, you start to perspire profusely, your stomach all of a sudden feels like there is a giant rock in it…
The Ripple Effect
Today, I want to share something positive. Not only because everyone has been so down in the slumps lately, but because I have been happy with the changes I have been seeing within myself. Dare I say….. I am actually feeling proud of myself. I have learned that the environment that surrounds you can have a huge impact on your life and has the power to change you as a person. How did I learn this?
Self-Worthy?
Self Worth. A tricky topic because it goes deep into yourself; a scary place for people to be. Lately I have been doing some soul searching and trying to find a piece of me that I feel has been missing. I know I lack self worth, but I didn’t know how to fix that, well because, I didn’t truly understand what self worth was.
Thoughts from a Heavy Heart
As I am writing this I am struggling, because honestly I am so emotional right now I don’t even know where to begin or what I even want to talk about. However, I feel a tug on my heart to share what I am currently experiencing,
My Five Year Plan
About five years ago I had made a five year plan; a plan for where I wanted my life to be, what I wanted to have accomplished, and how my overall life would look. Honestly, if you look at my current life and then look at my visionary life I made up 5 years ago…… it wouldn’t even look similar; I felt like such a failure.
Battling the Mind
This week has been hard….. And it is only Wednesday. Emotionally I am a wreck; I have been arguing with myself just to crawl out of bed in the morning, can’t stay focused on my nutrition, have been avoiding all of my responsibilities, have been sleeping pretty much most of the day, etc. It is just one of those weeks where I really have to pull myself out of the weeds.
The People Around You
I want you to think about the people you hang around with, that are your support systems, your friends, family, co-workers; also think about your goals, dreams, desires. Do they help you towards your targets or are they dragging you further away? Maybe, they aren’t doing either, you are just stagnant.
How to Stop Binging
First of all, I’d like to start by saying mental illness seems like a scary word to most people, myself included, and I think people think it is scary because society portrays it to be. Having a mental illness does not make you any less of a person, does not make you crazy, and there are more people than you think that have a mental illness, but either are too scared to open up about it or don’t even realize they are struggling with one.
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