Purging the Pantry



ANXIETY

Starting at the beginning of this project there were times that I was filled with anxiety. So I’ve been thinking a lot about why something like this could make me feel anxious.

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This so far has been the post that I start and stop, start and stop.  Why is it so hard to write about the anxiety?

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One of the beliefs that I had going into this was that the food that I had around was enough.  Now if I really thought about it and was pushed I might acknowledge that I had a lot, but really it felt like enough. So why am I pushing against this?

I’m literally looking at the physical representation of something I believed to be true and challenging myself to acknowledge or prove (not sure which word is right there) its excess.

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My anxiety level shoots through the roof on occasion.

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I mean, we can end this at any time if it isn’t working for us any more. We don’t have to starve or eat non-nutritious meals.  We can just go to the store.  But we aren’t.

So when I get anxious I try to take a deeper look at what we have here to first calm down, and then delve deeper within myself to figure out  my triggers.

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Comments

  1. Jessica Waters says:

    you guys have been such a source of inspiration to me, not just in the physical sense of actually using what you have, but especially being “emotional cosmonauts”. Sometimes it takes what seems like a long time to figure out a particularly deep-seated emotional blip, and then one day, something will trigger a memory and “POW”, your understanding will be like writing on a billboard and you’ll wonder how you didn’t ‘get’ that earlier.

    as a wise man once said, “before it’s obvious, it’s not.” It took me TWO YEARS to understand that one! sheesh.

    | Reply Posted 1 year, 12 months ago


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