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Don't be so hard on yourself

Today I woke up feeling guilty that I slept in. Anxiety started to creep in when I started thinking about all the things I wanted to get done before I leave for work. Then I realized, why am I expecting myself to be perfect all the time? Why am I putting so much pressure on myself? I am someone who has recently learned to love waking up early. It gives me a sense of accomplishment. I am able to have a couple hours to myself where I can do anything I feel like such as workout, read, spend time with my pup, and I can take my time and not feel rushed to run out the door. I have time to do whatever I want before the rest of the world wakes up. So, essentially the early morning is my sacred "me" time. The time where the house is most quiet, before my pup wakes up and starts begging for food & to be taken out, and the time where I am able to gather my thoughts and set myself up to have an awesome day. If I let myself sleep in, I often will wake up feeling anxious already or f

Get out of your own damn head already

You can be your own worst enemy. If only I had a dollar for the amount of times I over-analyzed things or thought about a situation so much to the point where it would drive me crazy. I have the amazing ability to turn something that happened in the past or worries I have about the future into a crippling mindset about life. I have gotten a lot better with controlling my general anxiety, and I am now able to do things that I avoided doing in the past due to my anxiety. I am proud of how far I have come with managing my anxiety, but that's not to say that some days are worse than others and doesn't mean I don't at times let little things bother me way more than they should. I have been taking things way too personally lately. Like if someone were to say something to me and sound not-so-polite while saying it, I will take it offensively. Even if it's something that isn't even about me. Yesterday specifically was a weird day for me. I took a situation way out of