PoetryTherapy: Anxiety (part 1)
So I recently went to a workshop about poetry as a means to healing. I am going to dive in to using it on my blog now and then…..and now…FOR THE NOW!
My stressor is Anxiety…. I have been eating less and eating uber healthy, exercising, losing weight, transforming my life. And since I have turned away from food, I find I am sitting with my feelings more. The most uncomfortable and most present feeling is Anxiety. Over the course of the next several blogs, I want to explore what Anxiety is like, how I do Anxiety and what I can understand from it.
Here is my start:
If I had to turn Anxiety into a person…to personify Anxiety, I might describe her in this way…
Anxiety is a woman who paces the recesses of my mind, wring her hands, mumbling to herself, making more animal sounds than human ones. Sometimes her hands will stop their circular hunt to break out in expression and exasperbation of whatever they are trying so hard to strangle. EeerRraHHHH! And the hands fling up to the sky, the situation of discontent appearing to fly into the air with flight-to-freedom wings, only to be captured once more with an obsessive coo, a nashing of the teeth, eyebrows knitted in compulsive concentration dual hands matched in wrestle grasp circulation. The Dance of Anxiety.
Rae
You write beautifully. I have a book I would like to suggest to you. It has helped me deal with anxiety over food. I have written about it in my blog and there is a link to a video that shows you a tapping technique that has been a miracle in my life. The book is “I Can Make You Thin” by Paul Mckenna
Melanie
Wow, awesome poem, awesome post!!!
Maybe you should start a forum for poetry therapy.
Thanks for sharing!
Wow…. of all the emotions yesterday Anxiety too is who I sat with in discomfort. But you have a way of seeing the beauty in everything and now that is just bliss. Thank you sista! Look forward to the next….
Have a beaUtiful day !!!