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My Friend Anxiety

Learning my first coping mechanisms gave me something I had been desperately looking for: a way to respond to my anxiety. I was still having anxiety…

Building My Armor

It is very easy to take having healthy physical and spiritual routines for granted. As for myself, I even did everything I could to avoid them.…

Opening Up Old Wounds in Order to Heal

Establishing my early coping mechanisms for health anxiety was one of the hardest things I ever had to do. It was a distant departure from the…

A Step Into Self-Discovery

Now it was time to find a therapist. When I was younger, I had been diagnosed with depression. My mother found a psychiatrist for me, who…

The Weight of Grief

My father’s death was difficult in more ways than one. He was the only parent I had left by the age of 36, and he was…

Trouble Ahead

I started out working in a job where I traveled frequently. I flew at least twice a week, went abroad almost every month, attended meetings, worked…