Leveling Off

It has been a good week, I’ve made some great progress, and most importantly I’ve been experiencing life with anxiety.  During the weekend, my anxiety level has gone up a bit but all in all I can’t complain.

Yesterday, I picked up my grandparents and took them for a drive up the canyon.  Last night I took my kids and one of their cousins to see some fireworks at a local park.  Today I’m trying to get my house clean and I’m cooking a nice dinner for my family and inlaws.

I’m not sure why my anxiety level is up but yesterday I did notice that of times of anxiety I began to panic a bit rather than just taking notice of the anxiety like I had done throughout the week.

One thing that is clear that people with anxiety, like everyone else in this world, experience ups and downs.  Life is never lived at one level, we are constantly in a state of flux and it is perfectly ok not to feel 100% all the time.

However, it is in these times that it is very important to remember to think and act correctly, it can be so easy to slip back into our old habits and rather than being positive and saying “hey, its ok to feel this, I have anxiety” we climb under our covers and hide from the world.  When we are feeling great, it is so easy to look anxiety in the eye but if we can do this when we are feeling a bit down then we will take giant leaps forward.