Are You Tired Of Living Fearfully?

• Do anxious or ruminating thoughts prevent you from doing the things that instill your life with a sense of meaning? 

• Is constant worry about what will happen next keeping you from accomplishing tasks, reaching goals, or making connections?

• Have you found it difficult to achieve a level of lasting safety or security in your life? 

Perhaps you’re a worst-case scenario thinker, meaning that you constantly fear that something bad will happen. As a result, you may often feel exhausted by your own thinking patterns, as it seems like you can never achieve a sense of peace. 

It may also be that you experience a certain degree of social anxiety. Perhaps the idea of meeting new people or interacting with others tends to trigger feelings of self-doubt or fears of being judged. Or you may be concerned that you’ll have to meet others’ expectations of how you should be behaving. 

Maybe within your close relationships, your anxiety has translated into an overly possessive demeanor. Though you don’t intend to be controlling or critical, feelings of powerlessness in other areas of your life or the sense that you always have to be “the responsible one” may have caused you to have a tight grip on your relationships. Yet instead of feeling secure in those connections, you may often feel ashamed that your anxiety has once again gotten the best of you. 

Anxiety can affect more than just the emotional and relational aspects of our lives. You may be struggling with physical symptoms related to anxiety, such as digestive issues, headaches, chronic pain, shakiness, and agitation. It’s likely that your struggle with anxiety makes it difficult to relax and feel at ease. 

Of course, life would be easier if it was free of fear, stress, and worry. And it’s natural that such negative and extreme thinking would wear on you over time. However, therapy makes it possible to find tailormade solutions for the problems created by your anxiety. 

If you struggle with anxiety, chances are you don’t have very many opportunities in your life to express yourself without fear of judgment. In therapy, however, you can work with an unbiased and empathetic professional who can tailor sessions to meet your exact needs with the ultimate goal of facilitating a sense of peace and healing in your life. 

We will continue to collaborate to understand the root causes of your anxiety so that your tailormade treatment plan is not merely treating surface symptoms. As we like to say at Guiding Star Counseling & Wellness, PLLC, we are committed to your healing—not just your maintenance. Of course, we will never push you to share information that makes you uncomfortable or worsens your anxiety, but our hope is that therapy will help you get to a place where you can feel more secure to discuss difficult topics. 

Throughout the course of therapy, you’ll likely develop some very meaningful insights into your anxiety and the experiences that have precluded it. Not only will we customize your treatment to provide you with coping skills that can help alleviate some of the daily manifestations of anxiety, but you will also be able to gradually shift your perspective so that your overall mindset improves. And soon, you’ll find that it’s easier to address and communicate your worries. 

While a lack of compassion for yourself may have kept you stuck in a cycle of anxious thinking, building the skills for coping with anxiety will foster more self-compassion and self-acceptance. Therapy allows you to begin the process of figuring out how and why your anxiety has affected you.

It is possible for you to direct your life choices—rather than having your anxiety do it for you—as you embark on a path toward clarity and healing.