Tag: anxiety

  • Coaching vs Therapy: Managing Depression & Anxiety as an Highly Sensitive Person

    Coaching vs Therapy: Managing Depression & Anxiety as an Highly Sensitive Person

    After six months of silence, the author shares their profound journey through severe depression and anxiety, emphasizing the importance of understanding the distinction between coaching and therapy. Both support systems are essential for healing and growth, particularly for highly sensitive individuals. The narrative highlights resilience, support, and the necessity of advocacy in mental health.

  • Depression and Anxiety: Unmasking these PESKY and VERY REAL Beasts

    Depression and Anxiety: Unmasking these PESKY and VERY REAL Beasts

    Let’s have a real and raw conversation about something that matters deeply to- and affects many of us: depression and anxiety. This is especially important for those who don’t experience these often or at all. DEPRESSION I want to have an honest conversation about depression and anxiety.  Depression can feel like numbness or indifference–it’s like…

  • You’ll Never Believe What Happened To Me! Is This My Actual Life?

    You’ll Never Believe What Happened To Me! Is This My Actual Life?

    Hey there, my fellow sensitive soul! Let me tell you a little story about a recent party I went to. It was at a loud, crowded bar. (Did you cringe at the idea of a crowded party at a loud bar? Yeah, me too 😂). My husband and I were the first to arrive (even…

  • Sneaky Signs of Self-Sabotage & A Quick and Easy Hack to Pull Out Of It

    Sneaky Signs of Self-Sabotage & A Quick and Easy Hack to Pull Out Of It

    I’m always surprised when I recognize I’m self-sabotaging. My brain is so sneaky at coming up with new ways or angles. Why do we self-sabotage? The simple answer is fear and our primal survival instinct. When our unconscious mind senses danger, it sends us into a fight/flight/freeze/fawn response. The thing is the things that our…

  • Time to Adjust Your Expectations

    Time to Adjust Your Expectations

    Do you tend to have really high expectations for yourself? Sometimes they are so high it overwhelms you–you start to get anxiety about messing up, not showing up the way you want to, envisioning all the ways it could go wrong, or thinking about what everyone else is thinking. Are you exhausted just reading that…

  • How I Ruined My Vacation…

    How I Ruined My Vacation…

    I’ve been pretty quiet over the last month, doing a lot of self-work and discovery with one of my coaches. It’s really been the journey of 2022 so far–question everything, deconditioning from everything you’ve been taught, evaluate joy and where energy naturally comes from, etc. (e.g. slow down so you can speed up). It’s all…

  • This may ruin my credibility but…I need to be vulnerable and real.

    This may ruin my credibility but…I need to be vulnerable and real.

    I’m human. [GASP] I know, it’s embarrassing to even say it. The last few weeks, my brain has been screaming, “I DON’T WANT TO!” Exercise, eating healthy, posting on social media, sleeping, even just playing on my phone. “I DON’T WANT TO! I DON’T WANT TO! I DON’T WANT TO!” Yes, my brain threw a…