29/09/2025
I've been struggling with doing things alone lately..mainly just going for a walk, which I used to do all the time.
Used to love getting out on a walk on my own, finding a nice spot and reading a book, or listening to a podcast, but I've not done it for so long!
I put it down to being so busy the past couple of years; completing my counselling diploma, with a placement, working, family life...I'd almost not got the space to do much else
Then when that space opened up, every time I went to go for a walk by myself, I got a knot of anxiety in my stomach which talked me out of it. In day to day life and doing almost everything else though, I felt ok...
Isn't it a weird thing anxiety? How it can attach to certain things and stop us doing them 🤔
So today I decided to push past it (it was hard) and went for a walk. I still felt anxious but I did it anyway. Just put one foot in front of the other (literally lol) and, before I knew it, an hour had passed. The autumn sun defo helped and I'm glad I went, it was lovely 🧡
Anyway just sharing this as some might think, as a counsellor, we should be all 'fixed' and always ok 😅 but I'm just like anyone else with anxieties, which have popped in and out most of my life. If anything, it gives me a greater depth of understanding of other's struggles with anxiety! As I've been there too ❤️🩹
Thanks for reading, and to the lovely people around me giving me pep talks when I need it 🩷
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