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ANXIETY | THE AUTHENTIC ECLECTIC

Combat the Paralysis of Brain Overload: Tips Hide Right in Front of Your Eyes

A plan to get through day by day, minute by minute

Lisa S. Gerard

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woman gazing up while laying on spiral concrete steps
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The high mountain of obligations looks insurmountable from down here.

I spin in one spot.

Inertia.

For no less than three days in a row, I awoke motivated only to break my own mental rules for maintaining focus.

My brain wakes me at 3 or 4 a.m. I lay there in a vortex of overwhelming thoughts.

Spinning, swirling, suffocating, as I review the looming responsibilities.

The weight of too many obligations squeezes the breath from my lungs.

Sleep eludes me. I pad downstairs into the darkness of my kitchen, careful not to disturb my grandson.

I should stay in bed but I already know that drifting back off is a distant memory, for now. Unless and until I take care of myself, proper sleep will wait.

I know better.

But the train is having problems getting back on track.

For years, I successfully avoided being overwhelmed by simply lopping off the easiest, and least involved, tasks.

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Lisa S. Gerard
Lisa S. Gerard

Written by Lisa S. Gerard

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