I had a high-school bully. Hell, I even had a primary school bully and a pre-school one, too. In fact, I'm still being bullied.

When I'm feeling fearful - a word I associate with anxiety- it's all I can think about sometimes.

"Emotion" is an umbrella term that describes a loosely coordinated response that includes what we feel, think, and experience in our bodies in response to events we judge to be meaningful."

"The universe doesn't match our actions, it matches our vibration."

Being socially awkward is pretty low on my list of things I'd like to get a hold on, so maybe I'll park this for a while and see how I do with the more pressing hurdles.

"I use the term the element to describe the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together."

"The most important person to keep your promises to, is yourself." (Unknown)

I think she's ready to punch something, and it might as well be fear.

"You Are the Placebo is about putting you in the driver's seat of creating your own change..."

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose." Viktor Frankl.

"We must kill the lies we believe before they kill our ability to live life to the full." (Niki Hardy, Breathe Again: How To Live Well When Life Falls Apart)

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"I thought becoming myself was improving each part piece by piece. But it was finding a hidden wholeness seeing the fractures as the design."

If I were a sleuth, I'd be so bad at it because I'll happily look into the lives of those I admire, but I haven't properly looked into mine.

What is this, exactly? Do we all have the same one? Cutting right to the chase. By the time I'd finished Ethan Kross's book, Chatter ,...

"The significance of the moth is change. Caterpillar into chrysalis, or pupa, and thence into beauty." (Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs, 1991)

Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

You know how your washing machine and dryer have filters that build up with lint? The brain also tends to do that & mine is due for a clean.

"Your wound is probably not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility." (Denice Frohman)

That feeling in your solar plexus that won't budge. It's #anxiety, and for years, it has been the bane of my existence.