Hi coaches, I have noticed that my anxiety likes to travel by which I mean that as soon as I have disproven one of its concerns it just hops on to the next one. For example, as soon as I feel safe that I won’t lose my job, it will jump to worrying that I won’t be able to afford my flat anymore and as soon as I feel safe about that it hops on to the war in Ukraine and how things might already be fucked now for us all anyway. I can see it hopping and in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t overwhelm me as I have learned to live with it, accepted that it’s trying to keep me safe and that I have just gone through a major life change, but it does take energy to tend to it all the time and I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how to approach this differently?
Answer:
Why is it a problem for you that it takes energy to tend to it? What if you stopped resisting this and just allowed for it? You plan on it. Right now, it’s just a part of your life and that’s ok.
It’s like if you have a car you know there’s a certain amount of energy you’ll need to spend maintaining it, finding parking spaces and dealing with traffic. If you ride public transit you will need to spend a certain amount of energy planning your schedule, dealing with other people, and waiting out in the weather. We just do this and don’t make it mean anything. Sure it’s sometimes uncomfortable however we get around but we make it work.
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