Category: theatre
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Wellness Wednesday (8/30/2023)
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Therapy day! Well, writing therapy, I mean. At least until my therapist comes back from maternity leave or I decide to find someone new. I actually took my daughter to her first therapy appointment yesterday. She didn’t tell me anything about the session, but I think it ultimately went well. She didn’t seem to be…
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Summer Busyness
The fact that I’m NOT in this photo is pretty indicative of how things went… Let me back up. I haven’t written in almost 4 weeks and it’s been that long since my last therapy session too. Summer started and now I’m in summer busyness mode. We’ve already been out of town twice (well, once…
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Stupid brain 😝
Why are brains (particularly anxious brains, or at least MY anxious brain) so stupid? Why do they jump to conclusions that make zero logical sense and create worry where there doesn’t need to be any? Today was my son’s band field trip. I had volunteered to chaperone and of course regretted the decision as the…
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Therapeutic Thursday (3/10/22)
Last week I chaperoned my kids’ field trip, so I didn’t have therapy. So we spent about 20 minutes catching up on all that had happened in the last two weeks. I told about coming home from the field trip to find that my husband had done tons of work moving furniture in anticipation of…
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Therapeutic Thursday (2/24/22)
Defective. That’s the main theme that came up in my session today. We are continuing to history probe to find where my thought process is coming from. We started by looking at feelings that were brought up last week, specifically being a burden. I talked about when I had surgery at 5 years old and…
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Finding success in discomfort
This weekend has been a big one as far as pushing myself out of my comfort zones. Friday’s Date Night, which I wrote about yesterday, had me eating out and attending an indoor event with total strangers in a venue I’d never been to. Today had me speaking in front of the whole congregation (and…
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Date Night (and the zoo)
Yesterday put my new anxiety tools to the test. But I’d say that overall I won. As I mentioned yesterday, we took a family trip to the zoo, which was a good distraction from dwelling on the impending date night. Unfortunately, driving anxiety set in when GPS wasn’t clear about directions became of construction and…
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Social Stamina
Yesterday was the cast party for Sound of Music. When people asked on Saturday evening if I’d be there, I said yes. I’d been hanging out with these people for two weeks, what’s the big deal, right? Wrong. I forgot that the past two weeks were structured. I had a job, they had a job,…
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Lessons from the stage
As I’ve shared before, I have been a theatre lover for most of my life, and have worked in every role at some point. When I started participating in shows in high school, none of my previous teachers could believe it, having only known me as the “shy girl” that hated being called on in…
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Pushing through
I’m realizing that so many of the things I don’t do are because of anxiety. Here are a few ways I’m trying to push through. Selfies That picture up there? My daughter made a paper crown and placed it on my head. I took the selfie so I could see what it looked like. Did…