High-Functioning Anxiety
The Mayo Clinic describes those with high-functioning anxiety this way:
“To an outside observer, people with high-functioning anxiety may appear to excel and be in control. They don’t appear to avoid or retreat from life.
They may have successful careers, participate in many volunteer or community activities and have strong personal relationships. Yet behind this facade, these people have persistent thoughts of worry, fear and high-stress levels.
They struggle with significant self-criticism, persistent self-doubt, fear of failure, and a constant drive for perfection and pleasing others, which profoundly affects their daily lives.”
This describes so many of the hundreds of women I’ve cared for over the years!
Here’s the Mayo Clinic’s summation of its treatment advice, verbatim:
“They just need to believe in themselves.”
This is easier said than done!
How women with high-functioning anxiety present themselves to the world
Their internal experience
ANXIETY IS OUR MISUNDERSTOOD PROTECTOR!
Anxiety is our “early detection system,” designed to keep us safe and alive.
Our brain is constantly scanning inside and outside of us for potential threats to our survival, and sounds the alarm at the first sign of “danger.”
Those with sensitive warning systems survived to procreate, and pass these protective qualities down to their kin…
So in a way, you are here today thanks to your anxiety!
But sometimes we get triggered by things that aren’t actually too threatening, yet our brain tells us we’re in big trouble.
I teach clients how to calm and regulate their nervous systems so they can respond rather than react.
Come join me at Peak Wellness and experience the power and peace that can be yours at any time, when we gather tools to rework our anxiety to work for us, not against us.
Anxiety urges us to act, fast! And since we just want to feel safe and in control, we try to fight, flee (shutdown) or frantically “fix” our way out of it.
Let’s face it, this seldom brings peace, calm or a measured response…
Here’s the Magic:
Learning how to respond rather than react when we’re activated gives us back control!
Making this one shift unlocks anxiety’s stranglehold on our creativity, confidence, curiosity, contentment and capacity to create the day-to-day calm we’ve been craving.
I’ve helped hundreds of patients and clients over the years.
The hardest part is deciding you’re worth the investment.
I already know you are.
Let’s chat and explore the possibilities!