Anxiety is the body’s way of asking for our attention . It arrives quietly at first; restless thoughts, a tightening in the chest, a sense that something is off. Then it grows louder. My heart races, my breath shortens, my mind starts to spin. Suddenly I am no longer in my body but in my fears, chasing imagined outcomes I cannot control.

Many of us have learned to fear anxiety itself. We treat it as a sign of weakness or instability, something to manage, hide, or push away. But anxiety is not the enemy. It is communication. It is the nervous system ’s way of saying " please listen."

When anxiety takes over, it’s usually because something deeper has gone unheard. Maybe my body is asking me to slow down. Maybe my heart is trying to tell me that something isn’t aligned. The harder I

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