Anxiety disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorder in the U.S. with an estimated 40 million adults meeting the criteria each year. Children and teenagers are also at-risk of developing anxiety while about 8% of youth are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. With only 1 in 3 people receiving treatment, we must open up the communication lines about anxiety disorders and spread awareness about available resources…
Read MoreIn today’s society, the word anxiety is often used to express a multitude of emotions and reactions related to stress, fear, and/or worry. Whether voicing first-date jitters to a friend, ruminating over the outcome of a job interview, or while sitting in back-to-back traffic for hours on end, ‘having anxiety’ is used formally, and informally, to depict how one feels about a given situation.
Read MoreThe anxiety of COVID-19 is no different. Even Though it doesn’t feel like you do, you nonetheless have a choice as to how you will respond to recent events. I’ve created a list of unhealthy (deceased) vs. healthy (healing) postures toward the uncharted waters of COVID-19…
Read MoreWhile I believe this is a great time to help other people, I also think this is the time we need to pay special attention to our own mental health and specifically how much negative information we will allow/invite into our brains during this crisis. Too little and we may not be facing the brutal facts of our situation. Too much and we may bog ourselves down, hurting our efforts to move, work and/or study in these trying times. For your own mental health, I believe you can take proactive steps during this time…
Read MoreI chase the moments that continuously catch my passion on fire. I’ve heard these times referred to as thin spaces. Referring to when the space between us and God is thin. Like having a baby, getting married, achieving the unachievable, surviving cancer, etc. They close the gap between us and God—not a bad place to be if you ask me…
Read MoreYears ago, in the middle of my agoraphobic, social phobic, depressed state, you could’ve never convinced me that healing from mental illness was possible, probable even. Like a tornado crushes a trailer park, mental illness ravaged my entire life. And I couldn’t see beyond the swirling debris the tornado of mental illness was tossing all around me…
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