
Tag: be of service


Thank God for This Particular Anxiety Symptom

How Compliments Make Me Uber Uncomfortable and What I Do to Keep My Cool Under Praise

How I Predicted My Last Anxiety Attack and It Made My Brain Go Wonky
I sat down with him to eat dinner and felt the anxiety building up behind my eyes, like my head would explode any second. The familiar thoughts that everyone would be better off if I wasn’t around, that I’m a nuisance, and that he was completely disgusted with me because I was crumbling right in front of him, all began to dig deep and set roots into my brain.

How I Choose Beauty While Accepting Chaos

How Sitting in a Huge, Steamy Pile of Transition is a Little Bit Stressful.
There is no doubt that we are all up to our eye balls in stress and anxiety. Adults are feeling it. Kids are feeling it. People (like me) who were once only wanting to see and spread “positive news” on Facebook are no longer able to ignore it. (And by the way, I felt it even when I was ignoring it….I don’t know why I thought denial was a sound strategy…) The bottom line is, shit is fucked up right now. We are in a huge Pile Of Transition. It’s a big, hot, steamy, stanky pile, and folks are getting stuck in it whether they like it or not.
Be a Lighthouse: How I Protest Every Day

How Faith is a Path Towards Flow and Away from Fear

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and I Have ALL the Emotions
After ten days of solo travel, one hell of a podcast interview, and once again being contacted by many sexual trauma survivors, I am feeling free, sad, compassionate, burdened, happy, grateful, and like I need more coffee.
