Panic attacks drag feelings of defeat. That is to say, you thought that you had been managing up until now, and then you are clotheslined. Time stands still. In mistrust, you stare beyond the sky. It feels unnecessary to get up anytime soon. Journal Prompt: I feel the most defeated when...
Tag: Anxiety
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 3
Privacy agreements tend to be tossed aside in panic attacks. The once solo experience, bullies to the surface, leaving you with uninvited exposure. Journal Prompt: For me, panic attacks expose...
Feeling Your Way Through A Panic Attack, 2
Whether it is a bird flying by your alarm sensor or it is an actual threat, in panic, the body struggles to differentiate. Journal Prompt: Unintentional alarms go off when...
Feeling Your Way Through a Panic Attack, 1
What is a panic attack? In the anxiety family, panic attacks tend to dominate your attention and leave you feeling a primal and sweaty version of exhausted. Let’s take the next several days and unpack what happens to the mind and body when you experience a panic attack. Journal Prompt: Panic attacks happen for me when...
Wellness, 8
Hinging from the last ill-protected screw, here wellness decision-making dangles. Flapping in the open air, oh how it hopes to avoid a rogue wind gust. Journal Prompt: My wellness hinges on...
Wellness, 7
What is it that you need from wellness that you are not getting right now?
Wellness, 6
A new exercise routine does not need to be the translation of wellness. Wellness can be far more attainable, like interrupting your day for pesky hangnail bandaids. Journal Prompt: For me, attainable wellness is...
Wellness, 5
What competes with your wellness? As in, what wins instead? Journal Prompt: ...wins every time.
Wellness, 4
Wellness is interrupting your day to do the thing. Journal Prompt: I will be interrupting…to do…
Wellness, 3
Wellness tanks when a significant gap persists between the self that you share with the world, and the self that is actually inside. Journal Prompt: My gap is...