So I wanted to dive deeper on the subject of anxiety. The other day I posted something where I said,

the anxieties you have are not evidence of a problem within you, but a symptom that you lack

access to a fully expressed self, as well as discernment and control over the direction of your life.

Self-expression and self-trust are inextricably connected.

If you can't use your voice, you can't fully direct your life, which is going to lead to

anxiety.

Now, anxiety as a conversation is often said, oh, well, it's because you inherited a chemical imbalance in your brain from your family and everyone in my family has anxiety.

That's been disproven. That's a great narrative in order to create drug sales when they say there's a chemical issue and they offer something

that fixes quote unquote the chemical. If you look at the work of Hillary Jacobs-Hendell,

she wrote the book called Why It's Not Always Depression. And in it, she talks about how

anxiety is an inhibitory emotion, that it's a feeling we get when we're not able to

fully access one of our core emotions.

When I work with someone or talk to someone who has anxiety, the first thing I look for is

where are they not fully self-expressed? What truths are they avoiding about their lives?

We are taught in our society that emotions that are considered quote unquote negative are bad and that there's

something wrong with you if you have them. But anxiety is not an indication that there's something

wrong with you. That's what I was saying in my post. It's not an indication there's something wrong

with you. What happens if you orient your anxiety that your body is the canary in the coal mine?

That your anxiety is actually saying,

hey, there's something to be concerned about, about the future we're creating and the way we're

behaving. That if I don't have access to my no, if I don't have discernment and choice around

the direction of my life, my relationships, what I'm

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