Anxiety is still new to me. The feelings of wanting to jump out of my skin are hard pressed. I take two anti-anxiety meds..Buspar and Ativan. While they help,

I still have anxiety attacks.

So what to do? I get busy. I went and helped a church member get his house ready for sale. I was there from about 10:30am to about 5:30pm. He and his wife made an awesome lunch of spaghetti and apple smoked turkey and sausage meatballs, fresh fruit salad and pumpkin pie. OMG! what a meal!!

Oops sorry I was gonna write about anxiety and not food..although food is a much better subject.

So the whole day I worked on stripping doors. The way its done is you put on a layer of stripper then scrape it off, then add another layer and scrub with steel wool and then a coat of citrus stripper then wash it with detergent, then rinse it. We did 6 doors..both sides. It was hard work, BUT! I was so into it I didn't have any anxiety all day!

I feel good this morning. I'm eating the fruit salad. I am the calmest in two weeks.

The lesson I need reminding of is that whatever it is I feel I will can overcome it. I will still have ups and downs..thankfully the downs are getting easier to handle.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."-Ambrose Redmoon

David