My therapist said something to me recently that stopped me in my tracks. “Your anxiety doesn’t mean something bad is coming. It means something bad already happened, and your body is still trying to keep you safe.” I sat there in silence because, for the first time, anxiety didn’t feel like something that was wrong…
One of the biggest realizations I’ve had recently came up in therapy when we started talking about my “keep it moving” mentality. For as long as I can remember, that has been my approach to life. Something painful happens, you acknowledge it briefly, put it in a box, set it on a shelf somewhere, and…
People don’t like hard things or winter, but that’s when our perspectives get fine tuned.I didn’t understand that when I was young — I just knew that the hardest seasons felt endless and unfair, like I was always trying to outrun something I couldn’t name. But every version of myself that I’m proud of now…
the unlearn lab blog 