- As I imagine it, healing for me looks like-- - Moments of peace.

Moments of understanding that I have to relinquish control, so I don't drive myself nuts.

- I think for me, thriving with anxiety looks like being able to be a part of a community, and constantly engage with those people.

'Cause my anxiety causes me to isolate myself.

So, whenever I am around my friends or around my family or just meeting new people, it makes me feel really great because I know that I'm overcoming my anxiety in that moment.

- Me being able to address really any issue with anybody with a calm head.

Me being able to, life being able to throw its biggest balls at me, wrecking balls, and I can just stop it.

- You know, right now I wake up every morning and I enjoy teaching.

I enjoy seeing the, and being a part of the imagination and the curiosity of the children.

I love being in nature and just taking the moment to sit still and look at the people feed the geese.

You know, those type of things.

So, I'm making a conscious effort to make sure that I'm loving life, because life is loving me right now.

I really don't have any complaints, even with the ups and downs of just normal life.

I feel like I've finally, at 46, caught the wave.

- Not shying away from difficult conversations, unapologetically advocating for myself, not second guessing my decisions, owning my story, not feeling shame or guilt around the things that I've experienced, following my gut.

- Not holding on to grudges, forgiving people.

But see, healing also took a lot of internal work with boundaries.

Because see, sometimes the things that people do to us that we feel like, or when people say, "Oh, but they did this to me.

They did this thing, X, Y and Z," right?

Sometimes we can't always blame it on that other person.

We allowed that person to do that, because our boundaries have been so poor.

So, healing is when you can put boundaries in place for you.

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