LivingWise

The Change that supports a dream! After several weeks of high stress and pressure, I knew something had to go. I overloaded with so many obligations that it was impossible to do well at any of them. At the very least, I had to be a great mother and wife but after that everything sort of blurred together. My life was out of focus. At the very root of me, I am a writer but with all the other obligations and duties there was little to no time to grow in my craft. Enough was enough. I wanted to finally start growing as a writer. After watching tons of shows, I realized that writers were abundant but no person is alike so my writings would be just as good as anyone already in the business. Though I lacked in many areas, I still knew that my voice was my own. My work was worth waiting on and I knew it was time to use it or lose it. I was still young but time waits for no person and I was tired of procrastinating. After much study, I came to know that procrastination is self-sabotage...

I used to view anxiousness as a controllable thing that people used as an excuse to work up some attention. Nevertheless, in my adulthood at some point I experienced it regularly and it attributed to me being diagnosed with high blood pressure. I never thought that I would be so vulnerable. I worked very at keeping myself conservative and inside a shell of some sort. All of that meant nothing. I needed to change some things about myself which included living out loud if that meant freedom from anxiety.  Mostly, any and everything made me anxious. I prayed about it but it remained. As a believer I knew God saw my struggles and had to trust that there was and is always a way to freedom. It may not be easy but to experience my best life, it was necessary to take a stand against what I made normal. I didn't realize until a 21 day no meat fast that it was anxiety because for many years I lived that way. I thought it was normal until I was able to have nearly three weeks without it. Th...