Anxiety & Panic Attacks

Once the part of you struggling with anxiety knows you are listening and responding to it, it calms down, like a child does once you turn your attention to them and respond to their needs. This is where the part of you that gets anxious starts finding its voice because you are paying attention and being curious about it. This part is learning to trust you and you are learning to trust yourself because you are no longer dismissing, suppressing, or disowning this part when it gets triggered and scared. Anxiety decreases as this scared vulnerable part of you starts to verbalize what it feels and what it is experiencing. 

Now that you are growing in confidence and gaining trust in yourself there is more energy available because anxiety is not draining you out so much. You can start exploring and dealing with the anxiety wild fire epicentre or stage 2. The epicentre is usually from deep false views of self or negative identity beliefs. For example, a false view of self like “I am not enough” may have you anxiously running around endlessly, with little or no healthy boundaries and self care, people-pleasing and making others happy with you. Maybe it's a pattern of not wanting to disappoint people so you form a

pattern of avoiding failure at all costs. When you feel like you cannot make any of these things happen, the anxiety gets triggered or it is always running like a little engine that drives you. This can all stem from this place of believing you are not enough. At this point in the healing journey I find these false views of self come up pretty naturally because you are beginning to turn your attention inward, whereas before anxiety had been misdirecting your attention to the external. Internally is where the answer resides.