When you struggle with depression, anxiety, and many other mental health challenges, things become bigger than life. Your senses seem to go into overdrive and it becomes difficult to see your way out of the place you are in. It becomes difficult to know what is real?
So here’s the thing… Sometimes you just have to realize that it is okay to admit that you are having a tough time with pain. I guess in all my growth and the pursuit of my dreams I have still been reluctant to share when things are just hard. Sometimes
Exhausted and longing to find refuge in rest. I am awake and unable to sleep. Pain always seems to be my body’s response to stress. It is my early warning system that things are overwhelming. As if in the past my normal response would have been to stuff it all
It is perhaps little wonder that over the years I have been studying alternative methods of healing. I have what many know as invisible disabilities. It took years of pain, suffering, confusion, self-doubt, guilt, doctors appointments, specialists and all kinds of treatments to be finally diagnosed with fibromyalgia and depression.
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