Overcoming anxiety

Tips to wrangle the anxiety before it takes over.

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Forward: I originally wrote this post on my blog 12 months ago. Since putting the strategies in place — and let’s face it, the bottom line… facing my shit, anxiety has taken a back seat in my life. I know, it’s not going to be so easy (and believe me this was not easy) for everyone, but at the very least, the following tips will not do you wrong. Look after you.

Wrangling anxiety

Another work trip. Another hotel. I’d been doing this for a long, long time and sitting within four walls en route to somewhere should have been a very ordinary occurrence.

This time it was not. On this evening the walls became a prison, a prison which was bereft of the oxygen I needed so desperately in my body to live.

I had fallen asleep easily, perhaps it was the glass of wine. But 1230am was not so friendly. I woke with a shock, the air had been sucked from the room. I needed more, I couldn’t breathe and without my permission the panic overcame me. The wave of anxiety that was just about to wash over me was almost palpable. It was as if I could see the enormous wave high above my head, just about to crash and there was no escape.

And there was no escape. Within moments the wall of wiry, electric panic crashed into me, sweeping me underneath its’ imposing…