Most approaches to anxiety presume that the problem is in your head.
The problem is, actually, in your body.
This many milligrams, this many hours of yoga, this many positive thoughts and helpful affirmations.
Quentin Simon
This is not how anxiety works.
You tense your throat, you tighten your stomach.
The path to healing looks different for everyone.
Some people need therapy.
Buteveryoneneeds to change their lives in some way.
Everyone needs to change their brain chemistry.
Everyone needs to adapt to healthier circumstances.
The answer to those two questions will change everything.
And they will change everything because you oughta get your body out of its triggered panic survival response.
If you are not safe, you oughta make yourself safe.
Then it’s crucial that you make a permanent and serious adjustment to your brain and body.
You get to decide how you do this, nobody else can tell you whats right for you here.
You get to determine what this will require you to do.
This might require being uncomfortable.
This might make you confront a lot of the feelings that youve been trying to run from.
You are not permanently broken.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with you for feeling the way you do.
You have not failed, you have only found a number of ways that have not yet worked.
