Originally published on the Bp Magazine website. Feeling Anxiety vs. Feeling Safe
I often get so anxious I feel I can’t go on. I want to do a project like answering email or making a call to a friend, but the minute I even approach the apparatus such as a phone or a computer, I feel a terrible physical reaction in my body that causes me to stop before I even get started.
This is the very definition of anxiety—a FEELING that you can’t do what you want to do. So, you simply stop in place and go back to what feels safe and more peaceful.
Inevitably, what feels safe and peaceful is something like a substance such as [ Read More ]
