I also feel better knowing that I have an appointment to have this looked at.

This is a hot clue that the anxiety is connected (TBTG) through your thinking-brain center-- that doing what your best thinking says is needful is actually helping to reduce the anxiety.

If you still decide to talk with a counselor, that will be an important clue to share, when it comes to planning strategies to reduce the anxiety-- and lucky you! It's a very good thing.

It is also a very strong indicator that trusting yourself (and IMO your Lord) is a very practical and reliable thing to do. :~)


This means that the next time you feel like you do not know what to do, you might find it helpful to remind yourself that a feeling, however strong, is not as reliable as your own best thinking... that your best thinking does eventually make itself clear... and that when it IS clear, it is good to act upon it... and that when you do, it helps.


It's all related to that little trick I taught you during the worst of the V-stress-- the mindful decision to put your attention on a particular place of positivity to move away from the confusion caused by pain? At the time, you implemented that by starting the wonderful "Today is a good day because..." thread. And it worked very well for you during a really bad time. It was the act of a strong, wise woman-- you.

Trust THAT woman, who is even stronger and wiser now, and you cannot go wrong.

~Susan

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