Detangling From Anxiety

It’s time To cut the STRINGS and FIND out how it feels to be calm, confident and excited about your life!

Anxiety is often the pink elephant in the room that no-one wants to admit they have or talk about.

But you are not alone, it is the most common mental health condition in Australia with 1 out of 7 adults experiencing an anxiety disorder. Women are more likely than men to suffer from anxiety and out of those with the condition only 40% get help.

And no admitting you have anxiety does not mean you’re crazy! It is actually a normal physiological response to a stressor.

Anxiety is a survival response.

It gives you everything you need in order to fight, flight or freeze to deal with life threatening stimuli.

We need to reframe the way we look at anxiety…. it is not a weakness.

In fact tough people have anxiety and back in the caveman days, if you did not have a survival response to a stressor you would die!

But in todays’ society where we have less life threatening stress and more annoying stress this response is not really needed in the way it manifests. However your body does not understand the difference… not yet anyway :)

Anxiety can often leave you feel drained and tired because your mind is constantly on the go. You are stressing about all the things you need to achieve in the day and often your mind replays lists of everything you need to get done. But instead of organising you it is constantly pressuring you and reminding you how far behind you are in your goals and making you feel like you are drowning.

So to pick yourself up what do you do?

• You dive into a coffee first thing in the morning and then multiple times during the day to keep going.

• You have a slump in energy in the afternoon and seek out a sugary chocolate fix that undoes your healthy eating- leaving you feeling worse later on.

There are better ways of managing this and keeping your mind in check

Reduce limiting beliefs and fear that you are not enough and feel empowered to embrace who you are and shine your light. 

Anxiety can trick us into thinking that we are not enough, that we are going to fail, that everyone else has it together and there is something wrong with us.

It makes you conjure up stories in your mind and then convinces you they are real. And often these stories are more negative in tone. It makes you doubt yourself, makes your heart race and mind flurry so it is difficult to hold onto a single thought.

Stop the need to gain  approval and validation from others about your choices and feelings so you can feel confident in yourself and proud of where you are. 

When you can’t fall asleep it can feel like the most frustrating thing in the world & you will try just about anything to get the ZZZZ.

• You often reach for a few glasses of wine at night to take the edge off your day, so you can fall asleep.

• You binge watch Netflix trying to distract your brain; it may keep it occupied for awhile, but it doesn’t make you tired & fall asleep any easier.

You can fall asleep with ease and wake up refreshed- I CAN SHOW YOU HOW

So How Do We Untangle This Mess?

• By working on the mind, body and beliefs systems the are keeping you trapped in this loop

• By looking at what factors are contributing to this picture- what are your particular stressors (and stressors can be anything from food, to thoughts etc)

• Once identified we can manage them and also support the body to deal with the response

• By finding healthy outlets for this pent up energy and managing it

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