I can get lost on Pinterest for hours on end reading through inspirational quotes. Here are a few I have found and used for my own inspiration (and Instagram account)
Truth be told, there have been attacks where I didn’t think I would make it through. Where I was convinced it was the end and something fatal was about to befall me.
I was wrong. I’m still here.
I first saw these words on a piece of tile that was meant to be part of a mosaic mirror. I fell in love with them pretty much immediately.
At the time, I was having a bit of a weight crisis, I had just been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and was feeling like the world had crashed.
I AM – OK. That is all I started with. That was all I needed at the time.
Since them:
I am powerful.
I am happy.
I am healing…..
I am…
Unless you have lived through periods of high anxiety, you have no idea how tough it is to get through them. There are moments when you feel that you are pretty much losing control of everything normal. But you survive.
Anxiety is like hearing music in a horror film. Anticipating the worst – and then nothing happens.
You sit there, braced for impact. Waiting. Watching. Interpreting every small sensation as proof that something is about to go wrong. And when nothing does, you’re left exhausted from fighting a battle that never needed to be fought.