Right now, things at home are more stressful than ever. Your children are busy and growing. And, you feel torn between finding balance in the midst of endless responsibilities and demands. Right now, life is uncertain and overwhelming.
Deep down, you are doing your best to keep a sense of normalcy, but your whole family is on edge and disconnected.
You wonder about your romance, marriage, and feel especially you and your partner need help. Certain childhood losses and traumas as well as childhood family dynamics are now causing problems in your family. As well, you find yourself turning to unhealthy coping skills like drinking too much, drug use, emotional cheating, unemployment, or anger issues.
You’re feeling anxious, angry, resentful, unappreciated, and unsupported.
In your heart, there’s a part of you that knows working with a therapist has helped in your past and can help again. As well, there is another part that knows what you need to do, but feel stuck with anxiety and depression, and can’t find the motivation. You want holistic counseling to find some clarity, confidence, and professional, confidential guidance. In this article, we will discuss lifestyle based anxiety skills that can help reduce overwhelm, anxiety, and promote confidence.
So, if you are struggling with daily, chronic anxiety and health issues, focus on working with an anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut to help you learn healthy coping strategies.
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What are examples of anxiety triggers that lead to overwhelm?
A health diagnosis that’s upsetting or difficult can cause anxiety.
For instance, your spouse may have a new diagnosis like Lyme disease, chronic depression, or cancer. When your romantic partner has a new diagnosis, this can cause stress on the whole family. As well, when flare ups happen from cancer or a chronic illness, these may trigger anxiety or make it worse. Working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut can help you balance yourself. Sometimes, when there is a family member with a new health issue, all the care goes to that person. Anxiety counseling can be a place to learn to care for yourself too. From therapy, you can better take care of your spouse and children from you own full bucket.
Moreover, trying a new medication can play a role in anxiety.
Sometimes, when medications are increased, anxiety can increase. Trying a new medication can lead to increased anxiety symptoms. Medication is different for each person. So, trying a new one might mean that you have a side effect of anxiety. Sometimes, medication side effects might be more physical like dry mouth or dry eyes. Other times, medication side effects are more emotional such as causing racing thoughts or insomnia.
On that note, anxiety medication for adults is highly addictive.
Benzodiazepines are highly addictive anxiety medications. So, when someone is in recovery after being addicted to benzodiazepines, they will naturally have high anxiety in early recovery. As their body adjusts to less medication, the brain will figure out how to cope. Overall, if you want a safe place to talk about medication, work with the team at Wisdom Within Counseling. For anxiety skills, you can paint, draw, use clay, or go for a walking therapy session by the beach. Working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. can help you feel confident dealing with anxiety over time.
As well, children and adults who are prescribed ADHD medication and stimulants often have a heightened anxiety overall.
As well ADHD medications and stimulants create tension in the body because they promote focus. These medications over stimulate the mind. Therefore, anxiety also increases as ADHD medications tend to create adrenal fatigue. Sometimes, children and adults will find themselves overstimulated or over focused. Other times, due to the adrenal glands being stimulated in the body, anxiety is a side effect. Working with a holistic anxiety therapist can help you create life balance and become aware of side effects of medication.
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Over time from working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, you can also develop holistic coping tools to overcoming anxiety without needing medication.
From working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, you can find alternatives to medication to tackle your anxiety and feel confident again. You can pick from a variety of creative, expressive arts such as drama therapy for children and adults. Wisdom Within Counseling also offers art therapies, yoga therapies, music therapies, and nature therapies for anxiety. We offer outdoor play therapy for children who have high energy levels and anxiety to build coping strategies. For children, movement, play, and being in nature help to relieve anxiety in therapy.
As well, we all know that caffeine makes anxiety worse.
So, if you are an avid caffeine person, start limiting yourself to one 8 oz cup of caffeine per day. Caffeine increases anxiety. A lot of people, when they have anxiety, will in fact drink more and more caffeine. Really, caffeine stimulates your adrenal glands just like ADHD medication. So, you will feel more sleepy, irritable, and more anxiety over time.
Working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut can help you pinpoint lifestyle changes and if caffeine is making your anxiety worse.
Essentially, when you have caffeine in your system, feeling calm is much more challenging. So, your heartbeat is already elevated from the caffeine, and anxiety is in the mind. Essentially, caffeine can create symptoms of anxiety. And, decreasing caffeine use can lower unwanted anxiety symptoms. As well, it is important to know that caffeine can create the feeling of being frazzled and overwhelmed from long term use. Instead, go for a cup of herbal lavender, mint, rose, or chamomile tea instead.
A lot of people skip meals when they have caffeine in their system.
If you have a constant feeling of anxiety, reducing caffeine can help you feel more confident and grounded. People that drink too much caffeine tend to get into high conflict fights with their romantic partner. They are on edge from their adrenal fatigue. As well, people who drink too much caffeine than to have physical health issues, dehydration, easily become irritated, feel out of balance and have trouble sleeping. Reducing caffeine can have many benefits in your life. If you feel addicted to caffeine or another substance, working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut can help you learn self-care.
Holistic therapy supports you in building energy from the inside out through sleep, nutrition, and lifestyle changes.
On that note, nutrition helps lower anxiety and provide lasting energy.
If you skip meals, focus on making a routine around your relationship with food. So, skipping meals is a negative behavior that contributes to anxiety, worry, and overwhelm. Make a meal journal and write down what you are eating if you forget if you have eaten. As well, notice how you feel after you eat. Is there anxiety or calmness? Feeling guilty or shame? Nutrition can make a big difference in your mental health and sleep. Furthermore, what you eat deeply impacts how you feel and your level of energy. More so, schedule, sit down, and make time for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now, this doesn’t mean eating while working or driving. Essentially, working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut means looking at your whole self in mind, body, and spirit. Often, a professional guide can help you create the calm life you desire.
Wisdom Within Counseling In Southeastern Connecticut specializes in anxiety-based eating disorders.
Sometimes, people with anxiety have a tendency to binge eat, over eat, struggle with an emotional relationship with food, feel shame, guilty, or even have anorexia. Over exercising, OCD, and compulsive thinking are common with anxiety and eating disorders. As well, having a nutrition can be challenging in a society that tells you you have to be skinnier and skinnier. So, working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut supports self-love and self-acceptance.
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As well, you can work with an eating disorder professional at Wisdom Within Counseling to overcome guilt and shame around eating and food.
Holistic counseling in Connecticut with a focus on eating disorders and self-love can help you let go of black-and-white thinking around food. You can let go of diet culture, toxic gender stereotypes, and embrace food empowerment. As well, working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut help over fears around certain food groups. People with anxiety based eating disorders restrict fats or restrict carbohydrates.
As well, from holistic counseling, you can develop a loving relationship with food, and your body, so you can truly lower anxiety holistically.
Social anxiety skills are a benefit from holistic anxiety therapy in Connecticut
Sometimes, children and adults feel an onset of anxiety and worry before social events. Children may have a panic attack, develop fears socially, or become tearful. As well, children may have separation anxiety, or attachment anxiety that a therapy can help with. Even the most fun upcoming events may come with anxiety. So, if your child has a birthday party, no matter how fun, social anxiety may develop. Your child may worry they can’t make friends or will meet a bully. As well, if you are going to a networking event for your new business, your own social anxiety may ensue. Even work parties or holiday events you have been looking forward to like a Halloween party, can bring up anxiety.
If you are your spouse are in a conflict or fight, anxiety may increase.
When you and your spouse are in a conflict, you might feel more stress overall in your life. Studies show that when a romantic relationship is going well, people have stronger physical health and a stronger immune system. However, when a romantic relationship is aggressive, hurtful, or you feel unimportant, it is more common to feel overwhelmed. Right now, your romantic relationship may feel unstable, unsafe, and you may feel anxiety. Plus, in addition to your romantic relationship, you are managing other stresses such as at work and parenting. Working with a holistic couples or marital therapist, can help you share your needs with your spouse. As well, a couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can help you talk about feeling love again.
If you are struggling to feel closure from fights, conflicts, and conversations with your spouse, holistic marriage counseling can help you lower anxiety, feel secure, and build positive communication.
To start, click the button below below for a phone consult to work with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut for confidence and clarity.
Financial concerns
Likewise, financial concerns can create anxiety in adults. If you are worried about being able to pay rent, or are in deep credit card debt, you might have daily anxiety. To start, focus on creating a plan and following a guide. If you did not have parents that taught you about financial management, follow Dave Ramsey or start listening to his podcast. There are many people out there that can provide sound financial guidance. As well, it is hard to get out of debt alone.
Working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut can help you understand if your shopping or financial decisions are a result of negative anxiety coping strategies.
You and your therapist can make a plan to help you start saving for yourself. Additionally, working with a therapist can help you if you have gambling disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder with online shopping, buy too many clothes, or have trouble telling yourself “No.” For one, online shopping addiction is very real. With purchasing possible from one click on Amazon, it is easy to cave into negative thoughts to buy more. Often, people buy, buy, buy, and spend too much money when they have anxiety. Your holistic anxiety therapist can help you learn healthy ways to budget, and work with the anxiety beneath these decisions. So, working with a holistic anxiety therapist in Old Saybrook, Connecticut can help you get out of debt.
Negative thinking
Negative thinking contributes to anxiety. Right now, you might create a snowball effect around a negative thought. A lot of people catastrophize, which means that they think the worst is going to happen. As well, a person might truly believe negative thoughts or fears. Then, a person with anxiety stresses themselves out more. Essentially, anxiety is a circular loop. As well, negative thoughts can be an area of weakness that you and your holistic therapist can work on.
If you feel overwhelmed or anxiety, you might need help debunking limiting beliefs about yourself.
For instance, you might think that you are unlovable or that bad things will always happen to you. You might believe that you will never make friends, or that you smell bad all the time. Additionally, you and your therapist can talk about the situations where these statements came from. In the past, anxiety may of had a different purpose. As well, you and your therapist can talk about which of your thoughts might have some truth. Overall, you can choose your thoughts and focus on positive ones. Working with an anxiety therapist in Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling is a great lifelong coping tool for positive thinking.
Your anxiety therapist in Connecticut can help you build your self-confidence and start to believe in yourself.
What is one holistic, self-care coping strategy for anxiety?
To begin, when you notice your breathing getting faster and anxiety coming out, look around and name three things you see. For instance, you might name a shirt, dog, and book. From here, you are only getting more present in the moment. Then, name three sounds you hear such as the TV, birds chirping, and the AC on. Finally, move three parts of your body to get into your body. Essentially, mind-body therapies stop anxiety right in the tracks. For instance, move your fingers, stretch your ankle, and turn your head side to side. Getting into your body makes your mind arrive in the present moment. Whenever your brain starts to race, these holistic tricks can help bring your mind gently back to the present moment and lower anxiety.
If you have anxiety, you are not alone. Reach out to Wisdom Within Counseling in Southeastern Connecticut today. You can learn to lower your anxiety, while expressing your feelings holistically. Plus, you can sit and talk in a traditional way on a cozy couch. As well, you can gain expressive arts, yoga therapies, music therapies, or walking by the beach. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in going beyond sitting and talking when necessary. Sometimes, children with anxiety don’t want to talk like an adult might.
If you want to go for an outdoor, fresh air, beachside walk with you therapist, you can do that at Wisdom Within Counseling.
As well, you have painting and clay to release worry, build trust, and feel safe again. Further, you can work with a drama therapist to express anxiety. Drama therapy provides playfulness in the process of lowering anxiety, gaining mental clarity, and feeling confident. Or, your holistic therapist can meet with you on video, phone, or in person.
