Orlando Anxiety Therapist Providing Strategies to De-stress this Holiday Season

To de-stress is to release bodily or mental tension. Or, as the young ones may say these days… to chill out. It’s often difficult to relax or remain calm during the holiday season when there is often so much on your plate (not just food), like hosting family for a few days, preparing dinner, and giving (both monetary and time).

As an Orlando Therapist whose area of skill is in anxiety management, I have gotten to know many techniques that my past and present clients use to unwind. This week, I am going to share my top 22 ways to de-stress this holiday season, that will help transform your holidays this year (and every other year).

Tools for Anxiety: Calming the Emotional Storm

We’ve all experienced it before, the raging storm of intense feelings: anger, fear, worry, or irritation. Whatever the emotion, it feels powerless to be so completely overwhelmed. What starts out as a justified reaction, at the peak of the emotional hurricane, eventually has you feeling like a puddle of guilt and shame after the intense emotions have passed.

Orlando Anxiety Therapist: Five Sense Guided Meditation

“I feel like my brain is floating in space, I am so overwhelmed, I have no focus” Have you ever had these types of thoughts? Something Similar? A great way to feel more grounded is through mindfulness and meditation practices. One of the practices I teach my clients that are struggling with anxiety is the Five Sense Grounding Meditation.

Looking for Alternative Treatments for Anxiety?

Welcome to this blog series on alternative approaches for working with anxiety. In this series, I will highlight professionals and resources that help people that are struggling with anxiety feel settled and calm. Our third guest to be featured is Natalia T Galindo from Live Oak Wellness. She uses Yoga classes, Ayurvedic services and massage therapy to help people work through anxiety.

Orlando Counselor Providing Tools for Anxiety Relief

It’s Sunday evening and you’re preparing for the week and you notice an undercurrent of dread, doubt, and anxiety. “After I get all my stuff done, I will feel better,” you think to yourself. The next day rolls around and it hasn’t gone away. You’re still feeling anxious and unsettled. Anxiety stinks! It pulls us out of the moment, whether we are with our kids, at work, or even at the gym, into a feeling of dread and darkness.

Guided Meditation for Anxiety: Four Elements

“I am so tired of feeling anxious all the time! I am not sure why I feel so nervous and have such a hard time feeling settled!” If you’ve said these words before, you are like most of the clients that call me for counseling.

Looking for Anxiety Therapy in Orlando?

Welcome to this blog series on alternative approaches for working with anxiety in Orlando. In this series, I will highlight local professionals and resources that help people that are struggling with anxiety feel settled and calm. Our second guest to be featured is Dr. Gulnora Hundley. She uses Neurofeedback to help people work through anxiety. She is located in the Baldwin Park area.

Orlando Therapist Providing Anxiety and Trauma Counseling

If you’re exhausted from feeling anxious and nervous, you’re not alone. So many people struggle with anxiety. One of the many tools I use with my clients is learning a guided meditation practice. Practicing mindfulness and meditation helps to stimulate the part of the brain that can discern the difference between an anxiety trigger and an actual threat of danger.

Orlando counselor providing somatic resources for anxiety…

When anxiety has a stronghold on the body, it can feel like frenetic energy vibrating throughout the body. When working with clients, I also notice that it often lives in the upper half of the body, as well as in the front of the body. In the body, this looks like tension in the head, neck, chest and shoulders coupled with a forward momentum in the torso. All of this is happening outside of the conscious awareness of the person sitting in front of me.

Guided Meditation for Anxiety: Calm Place

Having a regular mindfulness and meditation practice helps to calm anxiety in a natural way. It brings online the part of the brain that tells the nervous system that you are safe now. If you have been struggling with anxiety, I recommend you start a mindfulness and meditation practice, as this teaches your brain and nervous system the ability to discern the difference between a threat and a trigger.

Orlando Counselor Providing Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Therapy

Do you ever wonder if your decisions are driven by old worn out fear patterns or if you’re getting an intuitive thought or hunch? Do you feel frozen in your tracks because you are afraid you will make the wrong decision?

Orlando Counselor Providing Trauma, Anxiety, and Relationship Therapy

Have you ever asked yourself, “Is this fear or my intuition telling me not to do this?” “Is my gut telling me ‘no’ or is my fear holding me back?” About 10 years ago, while I was working through my own anxiety, I asked my counselor a similar question… “How can I tell the difference between my fear and my intuition?”

Orlando Counseling Providing Anxiety Therapy

You’re feeling anxious. Your mind is racing. Your heart is pounding and you’re all revved up. Even though you want to relax, you can’t seem to turn it off. There is a constant nagging feeling that you’re not doing enough, an undercurrent of “go, go, go.” This feeling won’t let you rest. You stop and think about what you’re worrying about, and you can’t even seem to narrow it down to one thing. You just feel all geared up. You start to wonder, “What the heck is wrong with me?!"

Orlando Counseling Providing Anxiety Therapy

Your heart is pounding, your throat feels constricted, and your mouth is dry. Your system is geared up and ready to respond as if you’re actually in danger. You know there is no real threat, but you can’t seem to get your brain to calm down and stop acting like you’re being attacked by mountain lion. You’re exhausted from feeling all revved up and on edge.