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If you struggle with anxiety, you are likely exhausted from constantly trying to manage it, fix it, or force it to go away. Many people who come to my counselling practice hold a lot of shame about their anxiety. We are conditioned to see it as a flaw or an enemy that must be eradicated so we can finally feel calm. But what if anxiety isn't a disease to be cured, but a profound signal trying to help you? To truly heal, we need to shift how we understand our anxious feelings.

From a young age, most of us are taught to treat our uncomfortable feelings as problems to be solved. We are told to "calm down," "man up," or push our sadness, fear, and anger aside in the name of being rational. Over time, we become experts at managing and repressing our emotional lives. But what if the secret to overcoming procrastination, relationship struggles, and chronic stress isn't about managing  your emotions better, but actually learning to fall in love with them?

Traditional talk therapy typically focuses on analyzing thoughts and behaviors, but much of our trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress actually lives in the physical body. Trauma is not an issue isolated to our brains; its impact stretches through our nervous system to virtually every part of our physical being. Anxiety, chronic pain, fatigue, insomnia, and emotional numbness are just a few ways unresolved trauma manifests physically. As a counselor utilizing a Somatic Therapy