How to Deal With Anxiety

Seeing as though I named my blog "The Anxious Me" I figured I should probably cover a post on anxiety sooner rather than later. First of all the dictionary definition of anxiety is: "A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome." We have all experienced anxiety, but some people have it worse than others. Once in a while anxiety isn't bad, it's when it becomes repetitive that it becomes a problem. My anxiety causes me to not sleep at night, my heart will be pounding so badly I swear it's come close to coming out of my chest. I also will be so anxious about something that I stop talking. That's when my parents know something is wrong because I ALWAYS talk. I'm going to share with you my secrets to get my anxiety to go away, they work, I'm not kidding.

1. Write in a Notebook- Whenever I go to bed and know that I'm not going to be able to sleep, I open up the notebook, write down the date and everything that is on my mind. I don't leave out a single thing that could keep me from falling asleep. Nobody else will read your notebook so why does it matter anyway? Below is a picture of my anxiety notebook.

2. The next step is going back to bed and trying to fall asleep, it sounds like the hard part but the weird thing is, after writing in my anxiety notebook it's so much easier to sleep at night. However if that's not enough try relaxing all your muscles starting from your feet. What I do is pretend that it's gone numb, I wait a few seconds and then I move up a little bit more all the way to my head. The last thing you should relax are your eyes. Make sure while doing this that you don't think about anything other than relaxing that part of your body- if stressful thoughts start poking in your head it defeats the purpose!

I hope this helps guys! The anxiety notebook isn't only for bedtime either- use it whenever you need to. It also helps if you have stress over something, writing it all out helps to organise your brain so that you can focus on one portion at a time instead of overwhelming yourself with the whole picture. 

PS- Sorry for the lack of pictures in this post!

CHOP Run/Walk 5K

Hey guys!

Today I did a a 5K run and it was so much fun! The run was for a hospital called CHOP. I ran it with my dad on his company's team. It was so cool to start running and see all the little kids faces cheering us on and knowing that I was running this for them. It's especially important to me because I had to go to Children's Memorial in Chicago when I was a little girl to have surgery for a cochlear implant since I'm deaf. Knowing that someone did this run for me when I was little and that now I can do this run for other little kids made the experience so much more memorable and special.

The Crowd of Runners in front of us.

The Crowd of Runners behind us.

I got to meet the Phillies Mascot and take a picture which was awesome!

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A New Blog, A New Chapter

Hi! My name is Andela (pronounced Angela). I started this blog to try new things and to see what's out there. I also love reading blogs and so I finally decided to write one. I named my blog "The Anxious Me" because I am always anxious about something. I'm slowly starting to overcome this obstacle and I will be covering a post on how I deal with anxiety/stress soon too. Some things you should know about me are that I love to ski, play/watch soccer, draw, run, hurdle, help out my community in service projects, and I'm Croatian-American. I'm currently in High School and I live in Pennsylvania. My family is really close knit and we can tell each other anything. This is a lifestyle blog and I will be posting many different things on it along with pictures on most of my blog posts, I may also do some youtube videos to show how I did something but I'll talk more about that when the time comes. I will grow through this experience, my blog may not be perfect now but it will get better I promise! I am so excited to start this new chapter with you guys!

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