Anxiety & A Handwritten Note

I have major anxiety and I have put off getting help for it for a long while now due to a bad past experience with a counselor. Last week I had a really bad anxiety attack. Crying. Yelling. Hopelessness. Fear. Exhaustion. The lot and it was (still is) horrible. That day I realized that I needed help. And then I put it off for a week. On Monday I finally called and made an appointment for Wednesday. I was so nervous but I took the step and showed up (mostly because of the $25 cancelation fee). And I am so glad that I did. My counselor was not judgmental at all. I really felt as if she understood me and what I have been going through and how I have been feeling. She was really encouraging and accepting of me and I actually felt as if she was even a little proud of my motivation and life plans. That was really great to hear. It went so well. I do not know what I was so worried about and even though I have a lot of work to do I feel a thousand times better already. 

I feel so much better today that I wrote my bestie, Kait, a handwritten note!

This quote perfectly sums up our session today:

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self....

And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”

-Søren Kierkegaard

How do you limit stress/anxiety? Favorite form of stress/anxiety release?

Sapere Aude,

Rebecca