07/10/2019
Close your eyes and jump 🙈
4.5 years ago I did just that when I decided to up sticks and move to Paris and what an adventure it has been. Making news friends, finding love, building a business, learning a new language and the struggles that go with all of this left me with horrible anxiety.
Along side the Instagram posts showing the best side of my life was an anxious English girl who was struggling to suppress rising anxiety. 🦋
Last year my anxiety was so present that I decided to take a step back from the pressures I was putting on myself to succeed in whatever form that was and instead simply slow down. For those pressures to have an Instagram presences, to get likes and new follows, to win new contracts, to speak French, to go out and socialize with friends had been the factors that had lead to such anxiety.
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Over the last year I taught myself to slow down. It’s okay to choose a yin yoga over a vinyasa, it’s okay to stay home when you’re invited out, it’s okay to not work at the weekends when you feel like you should, it’s okay not to be in the ‘cool crowd’ and it’s okay to lay on the bed at 11am and simply meditate.
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I would never had associated the word anxiety with myself but as I slowly started to take a look at my life I realized that indeed anxiety and I had co existed along side each other for most of my adult life. I wanted to talk about it as I know my story is not unique. For most of us are struggling in one form or another with the pressures of modern life but it’s how we talk about it together and deal with our anxieties that is the most important.
As I venture into my new project as a yoga teacher I hope to share with you daily practices of how I keep my anxiety in check.
So let’s all take an inhale and exhale together... 🦋
