My Journey to Overcoming Anxiety: Conscious Lifestyle Change

I am documenting my step by step journey to overcoming anxiety. I am very optimistic, prayerful and hopeful that one day I will look back and proudly say that I have overcome this phase.  

I will use this personal experience to raise awareness and at the same time to give a message of clarity that anxiety/vexation can be addressed.  Anxiety is our body´s and mind´s way to call our attention to review and re-assess our life, to compose our life to avoid spreading ourselves too thinly and focus on quality living.  

As previously mentioned in my coming out blogpost regarding my anxiety attacks, I am now making conscious efforts to improve my quality of life. 

1.  I conquered the "stigma" associated with people meeting up with psychiatrist and psychologist.  I have therapy sessions with them to help me come into terms with my anxiety. 

2.  I have said goodbye to caffeine! 0 coffee nor tea for me since mid Oct 2017.  This has benefited me as it resulted to a significant decrease in my migraine attacks.   Instead of coffee, I take a lot of fruit flavored and herbal hot drinks.  It is an acceptable alternative. 

3.  I am grateful that my son´s nanny is also helping me in this journey.  Our nanny is supposed to work 20 hrs/week, 5 days/week but since I pick up my son my from school every Friday, she´s usually off on Friday and in reality works only 16 hours or 4 days a week though her rate is equivalent to 20 hours or 5 days a week.  As I need to do some sessions, I have requested her to lend me a hand in accompanying my son to his extra curricular activities on certain Fridays that I have sessions.  Thank you so much, J!!! I appreciate your help.  This is just temporary. I will get out of this.  :) 

4.  I have enrolled in the following sessions:  Thai massages, cranial osteopathy and meditation/initial yoga. In my next blog post, I will go into the details of my sessions. 

5.  I am incorporating in my daily routine the breathing exercises, relaxation techniques that the psychologist has shown me. 

6.  I am also reviewing my day to day activities to find out at which point I feel most stressed so I can minimize the pressure/stress associated with it or be able to deal with it more valiantly.  

These are my first steps in transforming my lifestyle.  I am committed to mindfulness.  I am committed to becoming the best, optimistic, most loving mom/wife/daughter/sister/friend/person that I can be.  So help me God!! Thank you!!! 

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