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When Olya and I started dating, I wasn’t sure what she’d think of my panic attacks.
This isn’t a part of anyone’s wish list – and so I kept it to myself only to realise it was hurting me.
This is what makes living with anxiety so exhausting – you are hard at work keeping up appearances, all of the time.
Trying to be normal when you feel so wound up you’re ready to explode…
What a drain!!
So one day I decided it’s pointless – you cannot win by hiding who you are, and if this is the woman I want to share my life with, then she’ll be ok with it.
And – she was! For which I’m grateful
But what I love most of all is the freedom it’s given me to be myself, to stop apologising for who I am, and stop wasting energy on make belief which isn’t helpful, not in the least…
So what might be the secret that’s holding you back?
Find out more on this week’s episode of The Happy YOU:
This isn’t a part of anyone’s wish list – and so I kept it to myself only to realise it was hurting me.
This is what makes living with anxiety so exhausting – you are hard at work keeping up appearances, all of the time.
Trying to be normal when you feel so wound up you’re ready to explode…
What a drain!!
So one day I decided it’s pointless – you cannot win by hiding who you are, and if this is the woman I want to share my life with, then she’ll be ok with it.
And – she was! For which I’m grateful
But what I love most of all is the freedom it’s given me to be myself, to stop apologising for who I am, and stop wasting energy on make belief which isn’t helpful, not in the least…
So what might be the secret that’s holding you back?
Find out more on this week’s episode of The Happy YOU:
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