Truth Be Told With Lucinda Bassett- ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK

Life is too precious to waste it with worry. Anything worth having takes a considerable amount of effort. One of he most important skills that will support that effort is resilience. Being able to bounce back when things don’ t go your way. Being able to get up and try again when you fall down. It is important to understand that:

Don’t be discouraged if you feel in control one day and totally anxious the next. Just as it took time for you to develop your fear and anxiety, it also takes time and patience to overcome them. Unfortunately we are not patient people. We like immediate gratification. But very rarely does anything of great value come quickly or easily. Some of the most rewarding things in my life were having and raising my children, maintaining a strong and healthy marriage, building a multimillion dollar company, and overcoming a severe anxiety problem. Each of them took an immense amount of effort, an extended amount of time, various levels of disappointment, and intermittent feelings of failure and success.

            I remember when I was researching anxiety and agoraphobia in my desperate search for answers. I would feel good for a few days and then one bad experience would set me back. I often found myself wondering if recovery and healing were really possible. Would the time ever come when I wouldn’t feel neurotic and anxious? Would I ever be “normal” again? To me that was the goal, to go back to feeling normal.

In the first place, there’s no such thing. Who’s normal? It sounds kind of boring, don’t you think? In the second place, would you really want to go back to being who you used to be?

 

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