The holiday seasons are upon us and for many it can be stressful and not a joyous occasion. In the US, Anxiety Disorders affect approximately 40 million adults between the ages of 18 to 54 (National Institute of Mental Health, 2017) and in the UK surveys indicate that approximately 3 million people suffer with anxiety disorder (AnxietyUK.org). Here are three ways to overcome anxiety.
It took years for me to realize that God never turned his back on me throughout my ordeal, but was in fact there with me all along. It was him who nudged me and gave me that little burst of strength (I passed out and was blocking the door) to move my body so that the firemen and EMS could reach in and drag me off the bathroom floor. It was God, who whispered in my mom’s ear as I was being rushed back to the operating room that I would live and not die.
Most days I have so many thoughts and ideas that are playing all at once in my mind that they some times cancel each other out before I can shift through them all and pick one out of the bunch. But today during my morning commute the one thing that kept playing over and over…
Eyeing my reflection in the mirror and hearing myself repeat this one statement over and over again one night, was strange but ended up being a total eye opener. “My name is Tashauna and I’m a perfectionist”. (Perfectionism, is defined as a disposition to regard anything short of perfection as unacceptable.) Hearing myself verbalize such a…
Have you ever been at a place in your life where you felt like every time you tried to fix something, it actually made it worse? For example, one of the best decisions I made was joining the military. After years of pondering and praying about what direction I should take and for the betterment…
