
The relationship between trauma and high functioning anxiety
It is still wild to me that there is a stigma when it comes to mental health! 🫤 Every other organ and bone in our body is often supported, valued and cared for when it is not doing well, so why is that when our hearts and minds are struggling 😕 we tend to minimize,…

How To Calm Your Nervous System
When it comes to managing the ‘Anxious Achiever’ experience (or anxiety in general) it is critical to integrate nervous system regulation practices 😌.Anxiety activates the sympathetic nervous system state, essentially our fight/flight 😳 response. This response impacts almost the entire body, releasing stress hormones (all in service of survival). When our sympathetic nervous system is…

Anxiety can be really loud at times 📣
All it cares about is keeping us safe and out of harms way. It will shout at us to “⚠️ watch out,” “be careful,” “you should stay home,” or “don’t do that!” But sometimes we need to interrupt the cycle with our authentic self. Our authentic self gently or assertively (🤣) let anxiety know it…