Hello and Welcome to The Messy Journey! 

Here goes for my first post for The Messy Journey……  I appreciate you being a part of my story and adding your own.  I’m currently in search of inner peace to calm my anxious overthinking mind.  I am trying to learn that just because I have anxious feelings doesn’t mean the anxiety has to define me.  My journey to find true happiness and peace has been a very long one – so I’ve named it the “messy journey.”  The messy part means sitting with some really uncomfortable and yucky feelings for a period of time (sometimes it passes quickly and other times it likes to hang around and bother you).  This means facing fear, hurt, anger, sadness, worry, loss, or other emotions. We all know it’s so much easier to run away or have a glass of wine to take the edge of. Yet, when we do that, we aren’t listening to our own personal needs. We aren’t being true! We aren’t BEING.  Somehow over the past few years, I’ve lost myself. I’ve lost that sense of being. I’ve lost my purpose. Do you know what happens when you get lost, you get more anxious (or have more anxious feelings) and you overthink and overthink and overthink and overthink.  I have definitely mastered the art of overthinking and “what if”.  One simple thought can turn into a spiral of worry and doubts.  Anyone who has anxious thoughts knows the famous “what ifs”… What ifs pop up in any situation and at any time.  I personally have realized that once I hear myself say “what if,” I know it’s all my anxiety talking. So how do you let go and surrender to the fears and accept what is and what will be? How do you embrace your life? How do you find that inner peace to calm the anxious mind? I don’t know yet, but I’m sure trying to find out. I hope you will join me throughout this blog, because we are not alone as we go through our own messy journeys.