Dark to Light - Coping with Anxiety + Panic Attacks as Business Owner & Therapist
I am blessed to say that my childhood was filled with love. Love that I couldn’t have imagined from a beautiful family. Even with this deep love I still have memories from my childhood of navigating anxiety. As an infant and toddler everyday I coped with the emotional and physical symptoms of severe eczema, chronic sinus congestion, and asthma. There were meltdowns in Walmart where my mother would hold me as I cried in pain. Expressing that I wanted to take a knife to cut my skin off because I was in such distress. Striking myself because I felt like this inner anxiety gremlin was taking over my body, my mind, my identity. With a voice so loud that it was screaming its reality and truth into my psyche.
Lessons From the Road
You met Doris The RV in my August blog. Now she’s back with an update on her journey and of course an update on what I have learned along the way.
Doris, a new-to-us RV, was our response to traveling to see my elderly mother during these unusual times. We traveled (with a side of work) from Ontario to Alberta, visiting with family and friends along the way.
Serving with Joy
Welcome to Costron + Co!
As entrepreneurs, we have experienced the benefits that great support from our team and collaborators provide for tasks outside of our wheelhouse. To grow a business, it is crucial to be aware of new opportunities for synergy. We’ve all had those points at various stages of our business when we feel the weight of juggling all the ‘stuff & things,’ and we come to realize that if we want to continue to serve with joy, structural changes may be needed for a return to clarity, confidence and calm.
Meet Doris the Roadtripper
Ever do something that you said – and openly told others – that you would NEVER do?
Yep – me too. And it recently happened again. Meet Doris, The Roadtripper! This new-to-us RV motorcoach is something that I said I would never own. My spouse and I said never would we ever own an RV. We were quite proud of our judgement, with our list of things that didn’t make it right, and frankly couldn’t understand why someone would choose an RV as a method of travel.
