Anxiously Loving

Turn your wounds into wisdom And your fears into strengths (Just hoping my experiences will help someone out there who may need it)

[sincerelyjennax]

Anxiety is a real thing.

Depression is a real thing. And the way they hit you randomly out of nowhere is a REAL THING.

These past couple days have been HARD. Hard is definitely an under statement. Things have been almost impossible to handle. I feel like I have no control over my mind or my body. And if you’re familiar with this feeling, you know you feel completely powerless, weak and completely not yourself. I have dealt with anxiety for many years but this type of anxiety is something that I am not used to dealing with.

I just want to get past this and to feel some type of normalcy again...

[sunsetquotes]

How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

Rupi Kaur (via sunsetquotes)

[sincerelyjennax]

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”

[sincerelyjennax]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

[sincerelyjennax]

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about

[everythingfox]

The most unsuccessful sneak attack of all time

(via)

[sincerelyjennax]

Always nice to have some humor 😂😭😅

[baddadjokez]

I was laying on the couch and my fiancé said “I thought you said you were interesting”

I said no honey, I said I was into resting.

[sincerelyjennax]

😂😭

[sincerelyjennax]

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

[sincerelyjennax]

Just a little bit of humor...😂

“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too”

[sincerelyjennax]

"We are supposed to feel. We are supposed to love. And hate. And hurt. And grieve and break and be destroyed and rebuild ourselves to be destroyed again. That is human. That is humanity. That's being alive. That's the point. That's the entire point. Don't avoid it. Don't extinguish it."

[sincerelyjennax]

Patience

Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting

[sincerelyjennax]

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.

[sincerelyjennax]

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

[sincerelyjennax]

Being a positive person doesn’t mean you don’t feel negative emotions. It means you have faith in your ability to get through tough situations, hope for better days and the willingness to see beyond the drama.

[sincerelyjennax]

I've learned that it helps to talk about [anxiety]. Unfortunately I think most people would still get more sympathy from their colleagues and bosses at work if they show up looking rough one morning and say 'I'm hungover' than if they say 'I'm suffering from anxiety.' But I think we pass people in the street every day who feel the same as you and I, many of them just don't know what it is. Men and women going around for months having trouble breathing and seeing doctor after doctor because they think there's something wrong with their lungs. All because it's so damn difficult to admit that something else is...broken. That it's an ache in our soul, invisible lead weights in our blood, an indescribable pressure in our chest. Our brains are lying to us, telling us we're going to die. But there's nothing wrong with our lungs.

[sincerelyjennax]

Anxiety is just our brain’s way of trying to keep us alive and well; it is simply, and fortunately, one of our many in-built survival mechanisms. Just as we feel pain when we burn our skin which tells us to move away from the cause of the pain, we experience anxiety when the brain perceives a threat to our well-being and is telling us to prevent or extinguish the threat/danger.

[sincerelyjennax]

Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is