4 Simple Strategies to Help You Talk Yourself Into Anything

Even if you don’t want to do it

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Having Anxiety is tough. Some days it would be so easy to stay in bed and sleep or lose yourself in reruns on the Retro channel. I know, because I am guilty of this myself. I talk myself into staying home, even just for a couple hours and ignoring my job, or letting the entire day drift away as I avoid everything outside of my room. It can be debilitating.

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I have been working on the strategies I am going to share with you, in hopes that it can help anyone with anxiety get out the door and live their life. I am hoping you can take these tools with you for situations that you KNOW are out of your comfort zone. My approach has become my own private mantra and it has actually helped me to stop taking anxiety medication.

We all have those tasks and projects that we need to finish, even when we don’t feel like it or don’t want to. It used to be common practice for me to avoid all of these things because I knew I was mentally incapable of pushing through to completion. Maybe it’s a report that’s due. Perhaps it’s a visit from your mother in law, who makes you crazy. Maybe it’s…

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Kristina H

Writer of relationships / early childhood and mental health . Poetry and fiction dabbler