The Healing Power of Journaling: Emotional Maturity, #4

By Zoe McKey

Learn to harness the power of journaling to calm your anxious mind.

Do you often feel uneasy, uncertain, and overwhelmed?

You are not alone. Anxiety makes us emotionally volatile, question our every decision, worry excessively about the future, and fills our days with dread. It depletes our energy, time, and resolve. Anxious thoughts can take control of our lives. But it doesn't have to be this way.

If you're fed up with anxiety getting in the way of living the life you want use this book. It will give you the tools to break this vicious cycle for good. 

Communication and lifestyle coach, Zoe McKey, presents a unique and easy to follow approach to managing anxiety. Over a lifetime spent battling with anxiety, she has tried many techniques to control it–with little success- until she finally found the magic formula, which she discloses in this powerful read. 

Written to help you better understand yourself and tune down the everyday worries getting in your way, this thoughtful book is a safe space for reflection, self-acceptance, and the freedom to move forward with more clarity and joy. 

You will find an abundance of thought-provoking, engaging questions to guide your thoughts in the book.Find your own answers to why you're anxious, and what's the best path –to you- to break out of this state. 
 

Find a way out of the maze of intrusive thoughts. 

- Write it down! Keep your anxiety in check with the help of a handful of mental health tips and techniques.
- Go through the process of anxiety management at a self-chosen, reasonable pace.
- Take action with the help of questions, writing exercises, and practices; be proactive about controlling your anxiety.
- Practical, cognitive behavioral therapy based advice to change the way you deal with anxiety.
 

Break down your defense mechanisms. Embrace your genuine vulnerability.

- You're not "beyond help." You have been simply conditioned into thinking you are.
- How to stop resisting anxiety, and rather befriend it. 
- Discover the underlying reasons for your anxious thoughts, and use acceptance and letting go to defeat them.
- The best journaling method to make order in your head.

The Healing Power of Journaling is a calming breath of fresh air and a quiet space to reflect and recharge in a hectic and uncertain world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zoe McKey
• Release date: Dec 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393631651

Book preview

One

What Is Anxiety?

You are not alone if you know how anxiety feels. It is not picky about who it affects; rich, poor, educated, unschooled, old, young, man, woman, Black, White, dog lover, animal hater. This state of mind crosses all boundaries.

Everybody encounters anxiety a couple times in their life, regardless of how well-established, secure, or mentally stable they are. However, for many of us, anxiety is a recurring or constant visitor. It exists on a spectrum regarding how it affects our life. But what can be done about it?

Anxiety is a classic example of the saying, What you resist, persists. It is a popular response—especially in Western culture—to repress, ignore, numb, or deny the effect anxious thoughts and emotions have on us. Resorting to any of the practices above will not help us ease our anxiety in the long run. Just like a boomerang, it will come back.

We often fail to consider that anxiety is the messenger of our subconscious mind. If we turn towards it, rather than away from it, we can learn exciting and important things about ourselves. We can step on the path of genuine healing. To use the message of anxiety to our benefit, we need to break up with the idea that anxiety is a sign of weakness, a shameful part of our being. We need to adopt an attitude of curiosity, one that accepts our fears as a part of our gentle, sentient heart, continually seeking growth and healing.

When we approach anxiety as a teacher, we can learn valuable lessons about our needs. Our innermost self is trying to tell us to pay attention to an area ready to grow.

We can experience anxiety in many forms—obsessions, intrusive thoughts, insomnia, and excessive worrying, just to name a few. If we choose to respond to these symptoms with denial or repression led by shame, we will not rid ourselves of them. They will secretly team up against us in a particular place of our psyche. Intrusive thoughts like you’ll never be enough, you’re broken, you messed it up last time, and you’re going to mess it up again, after such a long time of abstinence you did it again, there’s no going back now, and you just ruined everything will flood our