Lots of changes in my life. Changes in the recent past, changes to come:
Graduated from college
Applied to graduate schools
Got into dream graduate programs! Debated options, traveled to schools and finally decided.
Last year of four year part-time job
Leaving New York, where I've lived for almost twelve now
Moving to Iowa City in August
Leaving home for the first time in August
Moving into first apartment! <--excited about this!
Turned twenty-four (getting older=pressure) in March!
It's causing me some anxiety, how my life has changed and is changing. I'm happy of course (so many of my dreams and prayers came true) but I'm also terrified and worried. For awhile, my anxiety even clouded my happiness.
I've been working on my anxiety, reminding myself to be brave and trying to use healthy ways (not overeating) to soothe myself. I was talking to a friend and she wrote me, "Whatever anxiety you're feeling...just embrace it. Anxiety can be a great motivator if you learn how to properly channel the energy rather than allow it to overwhelm you." I was (and still) give myself a hard time about being anxious at all and another friend wrote me, "
Alexia, your anxiety is not insignificant. You have a lot of life-changing decisions to make in a short period of time. Maybe having "nothing to do" is exacerbating it, but it's real. Give yourself some credit. All of us would be anxious under similar circumstances."
Here's how I've been trying to deal with my worries:
-Praying more. Spending time each day asking God to help me to be brave.
- Challenging my anxiety into other things, like reading, television, etc. I got a free month of netflix!
This documentary--it's about the black man who puppets 'Elmo'-- is very sweet, btw :)
-Trying to spend time with family and friends
-Living more intuitively by decreasing or removing some of the 'noise' in my life
- Exercise<--lifts my mood
- Making sleep a priority. I feel better when I sleep better.
Do you have
pinterest?!
I recently joined and I do love it. I 'pinned' these inspirations as reminders.