26 Weeks to Half Marathon My goal is to run the Valley Harvest Half Marathon, on Sunday, October 11th, 2020 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. 21.1km. Everything About This Week Was Out-of-Sorts This blog won’t follow my usual format of writing about my weekly exercise progress, getting to October and running the Valley Harvest Half Marathon. I…
Tag: anxiety
Managing Anxiety and the Mind of Choice
It’s an odd thing, that moment when I realised at any given time I can make a choice to keep me safe and avoid anxiety. I’m not talking safe to avoid anxiety as in deciding not to walk, alone, through a dangerous neighbourhood at 2:00am, safe. I talking about that inner feeling of safety because I’ve…
Managing Anxiety -The Space of No Mind
I’ve been managing anxiety, with bouts of depression, since my late teens. I’ve had many years of talk therapy, had good years and difficult years, been on and off the merry-go-round of medications; and am presently off of all medications with a decision to stay this way. This is not an ‘I advocate anti-medication stance’ statement. Medications helped me…