Your anxious thoughts and the way anxiety FEELS in your body makes you feel so…. Overwhelmed, on edge, not in control. Your body feels like it’s always in fight, flight or freeze mode and it’s hard to calm that feeling of fear, dread or uneasiness.

Anxiety is manifesting itself physically through heart palpitations, headaches, tense shoulders, that unsettling, queasy feeling in your stomach, or just that feeling like the ball is about to drop. It is such a struggle to Slow Down, relax and/or take deep breaths. You feel worried so often, that you feel yourself reaching burnout. You are tired of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted.

It feels like you have too much on your plate, like you are constantly juggling and struggling to keep track of every single demand: from work life to family life.

You’re tired of feeling:

• Irritable

• Tired

• Restless

• Struggle to focus and/or concentrate on your thoughts or actions

• Struggle with memory

• Find yourself stress eating, or self-medicating with drugs or alcohol.

• Always feel on edge

• Palpitations or elevated heart rate

• elevated blood pressure

If you are being honest……you have noticed that your anxiety is taking a toll on your relationships too. You thought you could compartmentalize the anxiety, but now it’s getting in the way of your relationship and/or your work life.  

Anxiety and Relationships:  

Communication breakdown:

you have become overly sensitive or defensive or withdrawn. It may even impact how you perceive other people’s intentions, creating conflict. 

Separation anxiety and/or clinginess:

When you have to part ways with your children, friends or spouse, , all the fears and “what if’s” spiral your calm into despair. 

Avoid making decisions:

Your anxiety might keep you from making decisions, because you would rather someone validate your choice first or just make the choice for you. 

Intimacy challenges:

You either have zero to very little desire for physical intimacy or you notice that you have used sex as your coping skill and now your partner is feeling a bit used. 

Parenting:

You are constantly worried and on edge, and you don’t want your kids to feel the brunt of it.

Anxiety and Work

You notice Feeling stuck in your job: 

You keep passing on promotion opportunities because you aren’t sure if you can handle the workload or the expectations or worse, you keep getting passed up by others and you really feel stuck!

Your stress levels are through the roof:

You have a high demanding job and it’s beginning to take its toll on you. You aren’t eating well, sleeping well or getting enough time to enjoy some “you time.” You are struggling to feel like it’s ok to pull back on excessive work hours, so instead you find yourself  working more to catch up,  and as a result, you make less time for you and your needs. You are feeling a struggle to maintain productivity, and feel like you’re two seconds away from complete burnout. 

Toxic Work Environment

You have a toxic work environment, and you don’t know how to navigate the dynamics, uncertain if you want to try to make it work or if it’s time to look somewhere else. 

Burnout

Maybe your anxiety has you realizing you don’t want to be in your job/industry anymore. You resent feeling stuck. You resent your boss. You resent the hours and focus your job demands of you and  you resent the toll it’s taken in your personal relationships. 

Anxiety feels different for each person, but it is a physical manifestation of thoughts, concerns and worries that keep simmering in the background until you hear the sirens going off because it’s been unattended for far too long and it's creating fires all around you that you need to put out before everything burns down. 

Maybe you can’t figure out why you can’t stop feeling anxious thoughts, or why your anxiety is escalating, but you know you are ready to stop feeling so Uugghh all the time, and feel more in control of those emotions!