Strategies to navigate anxiety to be healthier and happier with Melanie Wilson

<h3>Whether it's you or someone you know and care about who has anxiety, it is imperative to navigate it.</h3> <p>When you employ strategies to navigate anxiety, you and your loved ones will be able to enjoy life, see the blessings you have, and enjoy the life you have.</p> <h3>The overthinking hurts</h3> <p>"Are you busy being busy? Do people come to you for everything because they know you will find a way? Does your mind race at night with thoughts you cannot control as soon as your head hits the pillow? How many hours do you spend ruminating on your actions and words to see if you sounded stupid, offended someone, or said something you can't take back? When you look at your phone, are you overthinking why they have not responded or why they responded the way they did?"</p> <h3>Childhood experiences can lead to significant mental health challenges</h3> <p>Melanie had several experiences during her formative years that resulted in significant mental health challenges. Some of the experiences resulted in her believing that she needed to be silent. Therefore she never had the opportunity to express her thoughts and feelings. She held them all in which resulted in more mental health challenges. When Melanie sought help for anxiety she was given medication and sent on her way. Melanie discovered that when she mixed medications, she felt that her mind was quieted and that she now had a sense of control intrinsically that she never had extrinsically. The result was an opioid addiction.</p> <p>Satan wants us to stay ended, to say submerged in hurt, pain, and suffering. In that space is where resentment, humiliation, frustration, and embarrassment consume you. The wounds are spiritual, mental, and emotional, but also become physical. And when the physical body isn't functioning, we can't carry out our calling and walk in our purpose. Satan is so sneaky that he has us convinced that God wouldn't create us with all of the beautiful gifts He's given us.</p> <p>When Melanie surrendered everything at Jesus' feet, she finally