Fear, Personified

A story about how fear chases us.

Big Decisions: Journal Prompt 4

There are no guarantees in big decisions. But there are leaps. Leaps where your feet are required to leave the ground. You are required to make a move. Vulnerability. A new place for your feet.

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An Essay on Fear

I’ll lock you up with protection, I’ll keep you confined to small margins of happiness.

Resistance to Mindfulness

I consider for a moment what it's like to be connected to the present. I quickly recall, like abrasive film strips, my last journey. It was too difficult, too painful, and far too overwhelming.

Painsgiving

Can we find gratitude through grief during the holidays.

Hypervigilant Living: The Subtitle of Anxiety

Hypervigilance is a symptom of anxiety. Webster's defines hypervigilance as: Keenly watchful to detect danger. Wary. Ever awake and alert. Sleeplessly watchful. Hypervigilance is continually overdone awareness and it feeds anxiety. For the visual learner, imagine anxiety as a weed. Think of hypervigilance as the rain that cultivates the growth of a weed that eventually consumes your yard. If enough … Continue reading Hypervigilant Living: The Subtitle of Anxiety →