Simply My Insight

Life with Anxiety         Living with anxiety can be so damn annoying sometimes. Like being in a public place alone and just overthinking about how many people are there and how crowded I am. It’s irritating and annoying because I really don’t even want to think about something so trivial. Then there’s the times when anxiety must remind me just how big and bad ass it really is. It reminded me of that this past week.         So, I had a doctor’s appointment last Thursday for some pain in my legs that I had been having for quite a while (Idk why I waited so long) But I got somewhat of bad news…. Nothing fatal but still a shocker. My anxiety instantly kicked in. I cried in the doctor’s office and spent the next couple days in such a funk. My whole mood was down and out. I was so worried about what health issue I must deal with now that my anxiety was starting to knock at the door. I’ve been doing really good a...

I wonder how many parents reading this have dinner with their children at a table together…. When I was a kid we ate dinner at the same time, but not at the table together too often. I either ate at the table alone, or everyone ate in front of the tv. So, I grew up thinking that the families on tv who ate dinner at a table together were so cute. The table being set and not just for decoration. All the food in serving dishes and everyone saying, “can you pass me this or that”? Everyone eating and talking and catching up on each other’s day. I always said that once I had kids we would do dinner the “tv family” way. Now that I do have kids, 10 year old Danielle and 6 year old Daela, we sit and eat dinner togeth er almost every night. The only time we don’t is if we are having a pizza night and watching a movie. Otherwise I cook dinner, put the food in serving dishes, and we sit together and eat. It’s literally the highlight of all our day. We have some of the best conversa...