Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and

tranquility in your life through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools

created to slay your anxiety.

Happy New Year. This is the time of year when the world at large becomes consumed with New Year's resolutions.

Understandable, we all want to improve parts of our lives and set ourselves up for success

in the New Year.

But for those of us who suffer with anxiety, New Year's resolutions can create additional stress and discomfort.

With that being said, this is a resolution-free message, a resolution-free zone.

Instead of creating high expectations for the new year, please take a moment for a personal inquiry.

Take a deep breath and answer the following questions.

What did you accomplish or what are you celebrating this year? And small victories count. How did you grow as a person? How did you care

for yourself? How have you learned to quell your anxiety? Only from this place of

discovery can you walk through the gates of the new year knowing you will continue to evolve at your own pace. Most people get so caught up in

what's next. They forget about everything they've experienced and all they have overcome.

Ananga's victories look different than mine.

My celebrations may not be at all like yours.

The scale of which we define our personal growth and success is sacred and need not be compared with anyone else.

This year I am celebrating every moment that I showed up with patience and compassion for myself and others.

I have been an impatient person for a lifetime. If I had declared I will be patient all year long, I'd surely have set myself up for failure.

Engaging in this major change to my personality means diligent, minute by minute awareness. Each day I start again to be a kinder

gentler version of me and I begin again in the new year.

Rather than focus on enormous resolutions, consider avenues of self-improvement that feel right for you.

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