Anxiety – Clues to Relief

Anxiety is an experience that can be exhausting, demoralising and overwhelming and, in severe cases, lead to panick attacks and a total inability to function on an everyday basis.  The desire for symptom relief may be so so great that to focus on the cause is often resisted.  However, your anxiety is there for a reason.  There are clues as to what it is about and what it is trying to tell you.

Anxiety often arises when a part of your shouts loudly for recognition or attention.  Rather that distract yourself, sit down, slow your breathing and ask yourself  ‘What is this trying to tell me?’ The answer might be immediately apparent.  Alternatively, it may be impossible to access alone. You may decide to seek a skilled professional to accompany you on a journey to process difficult thoughts, feelings and memories.  Rather than seeing your anxiety as as a problem in your life, see it as a trusted friend who is telling you something important that you need to change in your life.  This mighty be practical changes or changes in how you think, feel and act or something about educating others how to treat you.

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