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. Trust the process. I'm learning to trust the process. For most of this lifetime I've tried to control my outcomes.

I liked being the woman who made things happen. Not anymore. What I've

noticed is that the more I try to push my agenda, the more anxious and

agitated I become. Trying to manage every little thing is exhausting.

This year I've declared that I will do my best to trust the process of my personal and professional unfolding.

I define trusting the process by setting an intention and moving in the direction of what I wish to experience without attachment to the outcome.

Admittedly, as a recovering type A perfectionist,

this is something I have to recalibrate on a daily basis.

The awareness of the controlling behavior I wish to change makes my old patterns easier to break.

The last time my family and I flew out of Traver City, we experienced an airport nightmare.

Expedia had issued two of three of our plane tickets with the same name,

and the airline couldn't let us get on the plane without the ticket

issue resolved. We stood at the counter with the most amazing ticket agent ever for more than two hours to get the ticket reissued. I trusted

the process I watched myself choose to trust and surrender. Although it was aggravating and tiring, eventually the celebrated ticket

agent was able to get through to someone at Expedia who could help us. He had to talk with five human beings before someone with authority could issue a new boarding pass.

We barely made our flight.

The old make it happen version of me would have been livid. This time I was totally

chill. I let it go and trusted that eventually we would work things out.

The comedy of errors continued when we got to the gate of our connecting flight

while the plane was still at the gate and we're told we couldn't get on. My family and I had to wait another

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