Your body has athletic memory that cues hyper-vigilance and rapid speech into place. While this memory is protective and helpful often, sometimes with family, it is memory response instead of a contextual one. Journal Prompts: ...immediately prompts anxiety for me. ...triggers hyper-vigilance.
Category: Anxiety
Family Anxiety, 4
Anxiety shapes the way you experience family. Molded from repetition, you slip into a glove of responsiveness that is comfortable because it is known. Think a stiff leather glove, with little flexibility, demanding that you experience family as you always have. Journal Prompts: I am hypersensitive to... My family will always be... My filter says...
Family Anxiety, 3
The desire to control and the output of anxiety, rise together. Especially in family. Journal Prompts: They would be better off if they... My anxiety increases around my desire to control...
Family Anxiety, 2
Anxiety around family generates patterned body energy. It is learned, fortified, repeated, and repeated again. Journal Prompts: Around family, my body has learned to... I wish my body would...
Family Anxiety, 1
Anxiety in family is like a contagion. Some are tirelessly responsive to the energy field of anxiety, hypervigilant and licking it off the floor, while others, unbothered, step out of the way and wave as it sprints (and coughs) by. Journal Prompts: The anxiety energy in my family is... I usually pick up... I wish I could step out of the way and wave at...
Boundaries, With Yourself, 1
Boundaries, with yourself, 1 The very first person you set boundaries with, is yourself. To set any boundary requires acknowledgement that you indeed have limits. Oliver Burkemen brilliantly describes our finite relationship with time in his book, Four Thousand Weeks. Similarly with boundaries, we must regard our capabilities as finite; what we can do for others, what we can influence, parent, tend to, or be, they have limits. Journal Prompt: I need to acknowledge my limits...
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 9
If panic attacks joystick your world, leading happens from fear, not intention. Journal Prompt: My intention is to...
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 8
The prospect of another panic attack can recoil any forward efforts. Back in line, no risks allowed. Avoidance hotel stays welcome. Journal Prompt: My life feels smaller...
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 7
A panic attack is not random. Panic attacks can be activated by something specific, think noun, a person, place, or a thing. Or, panic attacks can happen without a specific trigger, and be a byproduct of stockpiling stressors. It resembles a full balloon slipping from your fingers while you are trying to insert the final puff of stress. Journal Prompts: Nouns that historically trigger panic attacks for me are... I am stockpiling...
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 6
A panic attack is the Super Bowl for loss of control feelings. Journal Prompt: I most fear losing control of...
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