Here are 5 methods you can use in the moment, as your anxiety rises. They are designed to align your emotions with your body. You are an embodied being [ Aundi Kolber and Try Softer ]—focusing only on your emotions, and not on your body, will hinder your ability to calm your body’s physical response to stress. By connecting our emotions with our bodies, we can calm them both down.
Read MoreMy lack of anxiety is a mark of how far God has brought me along the path of trusting Him completely. My anxiety has been replaced with comfort—comfort from knowing, experientially, that God was with me. He was with me then, he is with me now, and he will be with me in the future (whatever comes my way).
But there’s a step in there I haven’t mentioned—choice. I chose to believe God’s Word, that he is who he says he is and will do what he says he will do. It was a choice. You have the same choice. And that voice is a step away from anxiety. Any step toward trusting God is a step away from anxiety.
Read MoreBeing numb is helpful during and after a thoracotomy but permanent numbness isn’t good for anyone.
The physical numbness that comes with surgery can move into the soul creating emotional and spiritual numbness. Surgery is trauma, not just to the tissues of your body, but also to the deep places within you, the real you. This is true of any trauma.
“Feeling numb after being overwhelmed by medical trauma is normal.” Numb from overwhelm is understandable and normal, but let me be very clear: being numb is not healthy. We need to feel.
What do you need to move from numb to feeling?
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