Ways to lower anxiety holistically and with creative thinking
Anxiety is something that we all experience. Yes, babies and adults alike feel worry, fear, overwhelm, and anxiety. When you struggle with anxiety, you might have trouble sleeping, challenges making friends, worries about school or work, and even have problems with your digestion. As well, your child may be developing strange behaviors from their anxieties. Overall, anxiety gets stuck and impacts your entire life in a negative way. You might be so worried about the future. Or, be fearful of uncertainty or feel like you have obsessive thoughts from anxiety. When you have anxiety, there are many things that you can do to soothe yourself and work with your mind.
Who gets anxiety? How do anxiety symptoms show up for children and teenagers?
Children as young as two or three years old can have anxiety and display it. Often, children can’t identify what they are feeling exactly. So, they show adults they are upset or anxious through biting, hitting, tearfulness, being shy, or mood changes. Adolescents and teenagers who have anxiety may be nail biting, skin picking, acne picking, have anxiety ticks, or strange gestures. Teens with anxiety may withdrawal socially or have school anxiety. Sometimes, when a depressed teenager has anxiety, they will also self-harm or cut. If your teenager is showing any of these anxiety symptoms, contact us today. As well, when a teenager has anxiety, their grades might drop, they might avoid going to school, and they might be more tearful.
How do adults demonstrate anxiety symptoms?
An adult may be more irritable, lose their appetite, feel distracted, have inner chaos, and have trouble sleeping. For adults with anxiety, it can look like obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD. Sometimes, adults with high levels of anxiety will have compulsions around working out or exercising too much. As well, adults with anxiety may be more easily startled or jump when there is a loud noise. Adults with anxiety may be called high strung, and sometimes are more sensitive. Sensitivities around anxiety can include being sensitive to touch, pressure, smells, scents, sounds, and emotional pain.
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How are panic attacks and anxiety different?
Generalized anxiety is some thing that you feel all day long every day. To note, panic attacks and anxiety are different. On the other hand, anxiety and panic attacks are short occurrences of very high levels of anxiety. Sometimes, people with general anxiety will also have experiences of anxiety and panic attacks. But, not everyone with general anxiety also experience panic attacks. Unlike general anxiety, panic and anxiety attacks are a result of trauma.
Understanding your trauma history can help you better manage your anxiety and panic attacks.
Anxiety and panic attacks that are very severe are often in the category of a PTSD flashback. Also, a PTSD or trauma flashback occurs as a result of an emotional trigger. In your past, you may have been through painful experiences that left you feeling hurt, betrayed, sad, or angry. This might be an experience of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional neglect, or sexual trauma.
Do you have anxiety from trauma?
Working with an anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts can support a coping toolbox.
To add, unwanted touch, abuse, and trauma can be different for each person. And, each person responds to trauma differently. Looking at your past, if you have experiences of trauma or emotional neglect, you may be experiencing panic attacks because of PTSD. Working with a therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling can support anxiety coping tools. Many times, when you experience anxiety from PTSD, mind-body therapies are very effective. the team at Wisdom Within Counseling love supporting creative, playful ways to release anxiety, tension, and frustration. Reach out for anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts today.
Understanding PTSD and the role that panic attacks play, can help you cope with anxiety and effective ways.
From understanding trauma, you can learn to overcome triggers, challenge negative, limiting beliefs, and speak positively to yourself. Often times, people who have experiences of trauma, experience severe panic attacks regularly. These panic attacks might take place on a major holiday, anniversary of a loved one’s death, or on a day that was significant to you in your past. You might have a panic attack on the same day that your spouse died one year earlier. Working with a therapist can help you in trauma therapy, learn positive coping tools, and develop self-worth. You can learn how to relax your mind and overcome panic attacks that are from PTSD.
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How can yoga and meditation help lower anxiety?
Another way to manage anxiety is that a regular yoga and meditation practice yoga, meditation, and mindful breathing are great ways to train your mind. Essentially, training your mind through meditation and yoga can help you navigate anxious thoughts. From there, you can learn to choose and focus on positive thoughts. As well, holistic therapies help you live in the present moment. With anxiety and panic attacks, you may feel like you are living in the past. Or, you may be very worried about the future. So, with panic attacks and anxiety, you are living in another memory from the past. Or, with anxiety, your mind is stuck in the future rather than the present moment.
Anxiety coping tools from counseling teach you how to live in the present moment and feel centered.
Therefore, meditation, yoga, inviting mindfulness breathing skills are great alternatives to taking a benzodiazepine. Benzodiazepines can be very addictive. It is more of a quick fix, rather than long term skill. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can connect with an anxiety specialist who can empower you to feel safe again. You can learn ways to identify and process anxiety, so you can feel in control. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can gain positive coping tools for anxiety.
Right, now you may be feeling helpless over anxiety and panic attacks.
As well, in counseling, your anxiety therapist can teach you what to do when anxiety comes. You can develop a self-care plan to soothe your anxious mind. Right now, it feels overwhelming and triggering to think about anxiety. So, working with an anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts helps you feel confident and calm.
How can Ayurveda support anxiety coping tools?
When it comes to balancing an anxious mind, Ayurveda principles have a lot to teach us. In Ayurveda, we are made of three doshas. Our three doshas are vat, pitta and kapha. When there is anxiety, it is a vata imbalance. So, to restore vata to a natural state of balance, balancing practices take place. For instance, warm oils balance vata. So, if you have anxiety, focus on oil rich foods like avocado, roasted macadamia nuts, roasted cashews, and grass fed butter.
How can working with an anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts support confidence?
Work more of these warm, oily foods into your lifestyle. Remember, in Ayurveda, fats are nourishing for vata. In addition to having warm, oily foods, especially on busy days, having a routine supports balancing vata. Create a routine around meal times and sit to eat. Avoid rushing to eat, as this worsens a vata imbalance in Ayurveda. Lastly, make a point to eat breakfast, snacks, lunch, snacks, and dinner at the same time each day.
Create a routine each day to lower anxiety symptoms and feel strong
A routine soothes an anxious mind. If you have anxiety, having a routine, plan, and set schedule for your day can make it manageable. Focus on waking up at the same time each day and going to bed at the same time nightly. As well, stick to the same routine each day to balance your vata dosha. In addition, taking time to adopt a daily routine creates intention. A daily routine helps lower anxiety symptoms because it is purposeful.
How can meeting with an anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts support a daily routine?
People with anxiety tend to feel scattered. It can be hard to feel motivation to create a new routine when your life feels chaotic. So, working with an Anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts helps with implementing the routine. Now, focusing on a daily routine lessens that inner chaos. In part of your routine, take time for a warm oil massage.
What is Abyanaga, warm oil massage, for anxiety?
This is a nurturing self-care practice that you do for yourself daily. And, massaging your body with warm oil each morning is about creating acts of self-love. Self-acceptance and self-love tools are part of working with a therapist. As well, a warm oil self massage is a form of nurturing self-care. Self-care lessens anxiety and can provide better self-esteem. Each day, Ayurvedic self-care routines provide a tangible opportunity to lessen anxiety and prioritize mental health.
How to lower anxiety naturally by using Ayurveda?
We know that children, teens, and adults with anxiety have texture sensitivities. So, you may have anxiety and when anxiety is increasing, have more sensitivities. As well, for a person with anxiety, wearing comfortable clothes can help. Make sure to wear clothes that aren’t too tight, and are soft. Simply put, wearing irritating clothes contributes to anxious thoughts and inner irritation.
So, to lower anxiety, choose clothes for yourself and your child that allow for good circulation and a soft texture.
Remember, let that old saying about pain equaling beauty go. To lower anxiety, change your clothes and pick comfort. Remember, relaxing your mind means wearing relaxing clothing on your skin. Pick clothes that offer breathability, movement, and flexibility. In general, avoid wool, itchy, tight, polyester, rough, or artificial fabrics. Sometimes, people with anxiety may have highly sensitive person syndrome. So, they may also have a sensitivity to tags. As well, pick pastel colors that offer a softness to the eye. For each person, lowering anxiety holistically may look different. Working with a therapist who specializes with anxiety and panic disorders can be really positive. At Wisdom Within Counseling, the team of therapists provide holistic, expressive arts to improve self-confidence.
Have you worked with an anxiety specialist and counselor?
Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness breathing might take a little more work to learn, but are well worth it.
Feeling anxious is not something you have to go through alone. Many times, talking with a counselor reduces anxiety. Working with a professional anxiety therapist can help you develop coping strategies. From holistic counseling, you can learn to express your anxiety by using holistic outlets. Many therapists don’t teach coping tools or holistic outlets. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn to cope in healthy ways with difficult, intense feelings. When anxiety comes, you may also feel sad, hurt, alone, scared, and unhappy. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can learn ways to express anxiety and release it.
What is working with an anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts like?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you can partake in expressive arts, drama therapy, and unique creative, therapies not available elsewhere. As well, you can use drama therapy, improvisation, role-play, art therapies, music therapies, and yoga therapy is to express intense feelings. Plus, your anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts can teach self-care skills. Often, under anxiety and fear are many emotions that are hard to release. Self-care helps with releasing these intense emotions calmly and in positive ways.
So, expressive art therapies help you release what is beneath your anxiety and panic.
You can learn healthy lifestyle skills through sleep, exercise, and nutrition. Working with an anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts supports lifelong strategies. You and your therapist can talk about the moments of the day when anxiety is worse. and, you can identify anxiety triggers, such as places, people, or smells. You can find ways to let go too.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, the team of holistic therapists love supporting children, teens, and adults with anxiety.
With anxiety, letting go is the hardest part. As well, through these holistic, expressive art therapies and playful creative outlets, you can access different emotions you might not otherwise process. Talking just is only one outlet. Sometimes, talking can be great for pinpointing anxious thoughts and panic.
Other times, drama therapies, acting, yoga therapies, music therapies, and walking outdoors support anxiety coping tools.
Plus, working with an anxiety therapist in Mystic, Connecticut using holistic, expressive arts give you a coping tool box. And, many general therapists don’t know how to offer holistic, expressive therapies. On the other hand, at Wisdom Within Counseling, yoga, meditation and drawing are available. Painting provide lifelong anxiety coping tools. If you tried therapy before, but found it unsuccessful, you may enjoy holistic, expressive art therapies. Often, people who didn’t like therapy before love the holistic, expressive options at Wisdom Within Counseling.
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How is Wisdom Within Counseling and Coaching unique?
As well, art, yoga therapies, and drama therapy promote expression in a variety of holistic ways. And, these drama and yoga therapies include your mind and body. For anxiety counseling to be effective, the brain, mind, and body need to be involved. You get mind-body therapies to help your mind slow down. As well, your therapist can help you sleep better at night through mind-body therapies. At Wisdom Within Counseling, you receive mind-body relaxation and self-care tools. So, acting out a scene that gives you worry in drama therapy sessions can help you feel more confident. And, you can feel strong going into a scary situation outside of session after role playing it. As well, in holistic counseling, you can learn how to paint and express overwhelm creatively.
