Anxiety

Anxiety can consume our waking hours and even deprive us of sleep. Everyone gets anxious sometimes, but feeling anxious about every unknown or imagined risk is more like torture.

Chronic anxiety is typically the residue of a painful event that just doesn’t make any sense. Humans thrive on patterns. We need to know what caused everything. Long after the pain and damage are gone, the fear that we can’t protect ourselves keeps us on edge. We are traumatized.

The merciless nature of anxiety makes us desperate for help. We look to ministers, counselors, psychiatrists, and our families for help. We try drugs we try mediation we try alternative therapies, each of which offer some relief.

Until we accept that trauma usually drives the symptoms of anxiety and insomnia we seldom find any lasting relief.

Survivors of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are often diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder simply because the sufferer doesn’t know that there was abuse or didn’t think of it as abuse, but were, nonetheless traumatized by something from their past.

Understanding the link between our anxiety or insomnia and trauma can help us discover a way out of the misery without having to blame anyone or see ourselves as “Victims”. We can come to a way of understanding what occurred with compassion, and acceptance while still giving ourselves everything we need to heal.

Fortunately there are brilliant minds creating new tools, techniques, and therapies that can truly transform our past and give us our lives back. I know, I’ve been one of the fortunate people that has been able to reclaim my lost self esteem and build a life with love and joy. YOU can, too.

Join us for the Life Beyond Trauma Conference in Dallas, Texas October 2-4th. It can start you on the path, or accelerate your path, of recovery!