You Don’t Have to Let Your Anxious Thoughts Control You
âDonât wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.â ~Barbara Baron
As a child, anxious thoughts stopped me from doing a lot of stuff, so I missed out on sleepovers, parties, and scout camps some of the time.
Anxiety whispered in my ear that it was always better to avoid, and so it became easy to convince myself I didnât really want to do whatever was on offer. I now recognize those thoughts and donât let them influence my choices.
I remember as a teenager I went to a carvery …