Dealing with Rejection: an Update

I'd written a post a while back about how to handle rejection, or at least how I was learning to handle rejection, but a recent experience taught me that I still wasn't doing a great job with it. Previously - as I explored in that post - I'd come to understand that a lot of…

It Probably Won’t Be As Bad As You Think

When I (re)created this blog, I did so with the intention of it being a means of helping me with my own personal self development, tracking my self care and managing my anxiety. I think that kind of got lost along the way, especially because I only had the vaguest idea of how I wanted…

I’m Giving Anxiety the Middle Finger

...or at least I'm trying. It hasn't been quite that easy but I knew I wouldn't be, but I've decided that it's time to throw my middle finger up at anxiety. Essentially I'm trying to challenge myself a bit more to complete certain (usually easy) tasks even though they scare me. Normally I'd just resort to…

Starting Mindfulness to Control Anxiety

When I started this blog, I started it with the intention of using it as a tool to help myself along a journey of self improvement, including, most importantly, managing my stress and anxiety more effectively. Yeah... so far I haven't really done that. My post history makes that quite clear. I've planned to write many a…

I’m Proud of Myself

I thought that, since this week is mental health awareness week, it would be nice to publish something mental health-orientated. I've already shared my experiences with anxiety on this blog. I could share my experiences taking anxiety medication but I've already written about this before several times, once on my previous blog and twice here…