Wandering Into Wellness

Happy, healthy, well rested and full of that calm satisfaction with an broad smile that comes easily with your balanced life, free from excess or chronic stress?  Okay this episode isn't for you.  But for the rest of us...   Anxiety is a tricky topic - having swung from being under-medicalised and under-diagnosed to hyper-medicalised and over-diagnosed, with the many pharmaceutical options from benzodiazepines to SSRI's - the list  of prescription options gets longer by the day.  Each of us has our own unique nervous system that experiences the world through our own lens.  Informed by the many traumatic human events our life entails, over time our body's natural defences can become worn down.   The first step tends to rely on unhelpful substances, and the next steps tend to involve a doctor's surgery.  And that might be necessary...   BUT - what if we took our anxious states and tried some of our OWN tools out first, BEFORE jumping into the land of prescriptions without end...because that's often what they ar