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.

Ring the bells that can still ring.

The bells that can still ring.

Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's

how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen.

Over the last several days, I've experienced far too many self-inflicted acts of emotional warfare.

Internally flogging myself for not being perfect again. Maybe you know the pattern. You make a choice that turns out to be what you deem to be an epic fail and then anxiously go over your decision or behavior again and again until you drive yourself

stark raving mad. Your inner critic is out of control. You may feel there is not a safe place to retreat

within the terrain of your hypercritical mind. Expectations can get the best of you and

you begin to judge yourself with the kind of severity delivered by a schoolyard bully.

This venomous commentary knows no boundaries.

One rapid-fire thought leads to the next.

You go from the situation at hand into full-on

mental massacre about all the promises you've broken, all of your failings, how you

will never get it right, what others might be saying or thinking of you.

Pick a topic, any topic. Self-care, nutrition, exercise, speaking your truth to social interaction

being a better friend, wife, husband, mother, father,

brother, sister, business owner, the list goes on.

Your intent to show up an integrity is massacred beyond recognition. It's

stressful and it's exhausting.

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