Category: phone anxiety

Friday Prompt – 5/22/2026

May 22, 2026

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NicoleHerronWrites

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, exposure therapy, family, friendship, grounding techniques, Growth, imposter syndrome, journaling, mental health, mental health professionals, parenting, perfectionism, phone anxiety, social anxiety, talk therapy, themed days, therapy, triggers, vulnerability

Friday Prompt – 5/22/2026 How do you handle fear and self-doubt? Fear can be overwhelming, but here are some tools to help show up anyway.
Unraveling

Sep 5, 2025

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Niki Herron

in ADHD, anxiety, author, Book Launch, cognitive distortions, defective, family, introvert, journaling, mental health, parenting, phone anxiety, shame, social anxiety, vulnerability

My brain feels as if it is slipping away from me. I am forgetful, scattered, and overwhelmed. I can only imagine it is a biproduct of the anxiety about the book launch. Or perimenopause. Or both. Since returning from Ireland I’ve felt more and more lost in my own head. It’s like while I was…
Anxiety is expensive…

May 5, 2025

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, introvert, journaling, mental health, people-pleasing, phone anxiety, shame, shopping anxiety, social anxiety, vulnerability

Anxiety comes with a multitude of costs. It can cost time, relationships, dreams, jobs, and even money. In March I got myself a new pair of glasses. I bought them online to avoid going into a store. When they arrived, I didn’t love them as much as I thought I would, but I did love…
Lent – Week 2

Mar 20, 2025

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, exposure therapy, hiding, hope, INFJ, introvert, journaling, Lent2025, people-pleasing, perfectionism, personality, phone anxiety, shame, social anxiety, vulnerability

I’m a bit late with this post. It’s Spring Break for my kids, so my schedule has been extremely wonky. All of the time I spent at my office has been focused on getting Draft 2 of my book done. But I finally did it yesterday!!! Woohoo! I’m taking a short break from working on…
Wellness Wednesday – 10/2/2024

Oct 2, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, church, cognitive distortions, journaling, lessons, medication, mental health professionals, phone anxiety, social anxiety, volunteering, writing

It’s been a while since I last did a Wellness Wednesday post, so I thought I’d give a bit of an update. I’ve been on Zoloft (Sertraline) for a year and a half. I visit with the prescribing psychiatrist virtually every 3 months for a new refill. I haven’t seen a therapist in over a…
Office Anxiety

Aug 28, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, family, journaling, people-pleasing, perfectionism, personality, phone anxiety, shame, social anxiety

Another post about the office and the anxiety it has brought to the surface. I was supposed to be moving into the office today. I had scheduled movers to pick up the furniture and boxes of files from my aunt’s house and move them to the office. I made that call on August 20th. I…
Big day

Aug 7, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, exposure therapy, family, hope, introvert, journaling, parenting, perfectionism, phone anxiety, school, social anxiety, writing

Today has been a big day. I dropped off Monkey and Squirrel for their first day of high school in the Freshman Center. Squirrel was anxious yesterday because they realized that their classes at the high school are the ones associated with student lunch times. On A days they have lunch before their class at…
The Saga Continues

Jun 14, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, exposure therapy, introvert, journaling, marriage, phone anxiety, remodeling, social anxiety

Today marks the 7th day we have had workers/repairmen in our home in the last 10 days. I am SO grateful to my husband for working from home almost all of those days to be the one to deal with all of these people. The kids were gone last week, but they returned on Friday…
Home Ownership Stinks

Jun 6, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, INFJ, introvert, journaling, people-pleasing, personality, phone anxiety, remodeling, social anxiety

Buy a house, they said. It’ll be fun. I think I’ve been had. We’ve been living in our home for 17 years. Prior to that we rented. If something broke, we were dependent on our landlord to get someone out to look at it and wait for her to decide what to do about it.…
Car Shopping

Feb 9, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, introvert, journaling, phone anxiety, shopping anxiety

I have been driving the same Toyota Sienna since 2010. I got it when my kids were 9 months old. It’s the only car they remember me driving and they are going to be driving soon themselves. That car has taken us to Florida, Virginia, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Illinois, and a whole lot of places in between. We’ve taken…