Tag: anxiety
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Nourishing your Soul, Eating Good Food, and Being Fulfilled
Good Food Nourishes your Body I recently went to a nice restaurant in my local town called Patini’s Grill. It serves American food, and it is so delicious! I went with my boyfriend, and we started with the bacon-wrapped scallops. These scallops were so divine, and I thought I had gone to heaven. Then we…
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My Anxiety: a Poem
By: Brittany Gonzales My anxiety is like a squirrel! I bounce, bounce, bounce, walk, stop—-oh look a nice acorn! Wait—- There’s a beautiful yellow sunflower dropping seeds, I should go there—- What was I doing again? Lost By: Brittany Gonzales What am I running toward? My hands and pockets are empty, Where did my…
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Nourishing your Soul, Eating Good Food, and Being Fulfilled
Good Food Nourishes your Body I recently went to a nice restaurant in my local town called Patini’s Grill. It serves American food, and it is so delicious! I went with my boyfriend, and we started with the bacon-wrapped scallops. These scallops were so divine, and I thought I had gone to heaven. Then we…
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What Are the Symptoms of Your Mental Illness?
(Depression & Anxiety) My lifelong struggle has always been depression and anxiety. I have felt its’ crippling effects for so many years (since I was a young child) that it is something I live with daily. However, that does not mean that I cannot live a whole, productive life because there are times, I can…
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Nourishing your Soul, Eating Good Food, and Being Fulfilled
Good Food Nourishes your Body I recently went to a nice restaurant in my local town called Patini’s Grill. It serves American food, and it is so delicious! I went with my boyfriend, and we started with the bacon-wrapped scallops. These scallops were so divine, and I thought I had gone to heaven. Then we…
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Retrain your Anxious Brain
Did you know that you can retrain your anxious brain? Anxiety is triggered by how we think and the environment around us. Anxiety is an emotional response that is similar to fear. A clear and definable threat causes fear. Whereas anxiety happens when an immediate threat is absent (Karle & Pittman, 2015). When we feel…
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The Mental Divide
(The masks people put on pretending they are fine) Masks Up People often live life in two separate worlds, the outside world, and the inner world. Masks go up as we pretend to be okay, saying, “Yes, I am doing good, or I feel fine.” Next, we retreat to our inner world, where our…
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Be Your Authentic Self
Being Your Authentic Self “Being your authentic self,” what does this exactly mean? Authentic is when you are genuine to your true self. You do not put on a mask for society so that you can fit in. Instead, you wear those silly headbands that others may think are childish. You put on that…
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Fighting Depression and Anxiety in an Unjust World
By: Brittany Gonzales Depression and Anxiety are Tough I want to state before writing this post that I am in no way an expert on depression and anxiety. My goal in this blog is to help people with depression and anxiety by understanding these illnesses. No matter what someone may say, these are illnesses and…