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Trust

Jun 5, 2025

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in aging, anxiety, cognitive distortions, Cosmic Smash Book, creativity, discovery, Growth, journaling, mental health, parenting, people-pleasing, perfectionism, social anxiety, Tarot, TEP3, triggers, Trust

A theme has been coming up for me throughout the last month. The theme of Trust. Not of trusting others, but of trusting myself. That seems to be a big hurdle for me to overcome. I’m constantly seeking external validation. I trust the opinions and knowledge of others before I trust myself. I question myself…

New routines

Feb 24, 2024

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, church, family, friendship, journaling, routine, social anxiety, theatre

My daughter has been taking aerial silks classes for several years now. I had noticed that she wasn’t talking about it nearly as enthusiastically as she had been, but she never said anything about quitting. When she decided to try out for color guard I told her she would probably have to quit aerial just…

Wellness Wednesday (11/08/2023)

Nov 8, 2023

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, family, friendship, INFJ, journaling, routine, social anxiety, theatre, time anxiety, volunteering

I started a post yesterday, but it was so rambling, I ended up deleting it. The main gist was that I was feeling overwhelmed. In some ways I still am, but taking the time to notice and voice my overwhelm helped me to see where I could cut back. This week is my daughter’s musical…

Mood 180

Jan 28, 2023

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, family, journaling, marriage, people-pleasing, triggers, vulnerability

My therapist suggested I track my mood to see if we can pinpoint when/why I go into some of these darker moods at seemingly random times. Since that day I’d say my mood has been fair to good, but not great. Yesterday, however, I thought I was actually going to get to document that I…

Covid Day 6

Aug 1, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, family, health anxiety, journaling, marriage, pandemic anxiety, perfectionism, social anxiety

Yesterday afternoon my daughter and I decided to take a walk outside in the thousand degree heat. It was seriously like walking out into an oven. But we’ve both been cooped up in the house all week thanks to covid and the idea of getting out of the house appealed. We did not last long.…

Anxiety Overload

Apr 1, 2022

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, cognitive distortions, health anxiety, social anxiety, socializing, travel anxiety

My anxiety is in overdrive this week. My husband went to a convention out of town last week and got back Monday night. On Tuesday one of the friends he spent a lot of time with tested positive for Covid. He took a home test and it was negative, but got a PCR just in…

Therapeutic Thursday (12/16/21)

Dec 19, 2021

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Niki Herron

in anxiety, pandemic anxiety, social anxiety, Therapeutic Thursday

Why does an hour in therapy go by so fast? I feel like we never get to talk about everything I have inside of me. We touch on a lot of things, but we always seem to go down a rabbit hole and the topic I think I need to talk about the most ends…

Tag: parenting

Mood 180

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