Living with Anxiety: 6 Tools That Help Me Come Back to Myself

Anxiety has been a thread in my life for as long as I can remember. Sometimes it hums in the background. Other times, it crashes in like a storm—tight chest, racing heart, spiraling thoughts, and the desire to jump out of my own skin.

Anxiety sucks. Truly.

It peaked for me about five years ago when I was struggling with mold toxicity, and again during pregnancy (which was super challenging).

I know what it’s like to feel swallowed by it. And I also know the small, practical things that help me survive it—and even come back home to myself.

In this video, I share 6 practices I return to when anxiety surges:

1: Focusing on the breath (elongating the exhale)

2: Naming what’s happening in the body

3: Remembering it’s a wave that will pass

4: Shifting into appreciation

5: Reaching out for connection (or simply the act of reaching)

6: Moving the energy through the body

These aren’t quick fixes. They’re not about “curing” anxiety. They’re about creating safety, moment by moment, in a nervous system that sometimes forgets it’s allowed to rest. If you live with anxiety, you are not broken. Your body is doing its best to protect you.

These lifelines are simply ways of reminding yourself that you are here, you are breathing, and you are not alone.