From Surviving to Healing:Tools for calming anxiety
Struggling with anxiety? Therapist Rebecca Muyres shares six powerful, real-life tools for calming anxious thoughts and reclaiming peace and healing.
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Living With Anxiety, Not Defined by It
Anxiety has been part of my life since childhood—but it doesn’t define me. In this personal reflection, I share how anxiety showed up through perfectionism, motherhood, and panic attacks—and how I finally found peace through support, faith, and therapy.
Helping Your Teen Navigate Back-to-School Anxiety
Back-to-school season can stir up deep anxiety for teens—from social fears to academic pressure. Learn how to support your teen without minimizing their experience.
Helping Your Child With Back-to-School Anxiety (Ages 3–12)
Back-to-school jitters are more than just nerves. If your child is clinging, crying, or complaining of tummy aches each morning, you're not alone. Here's how to ease their anxiety and support their emotional growth.
What Is Selective Mutism—and How Can Play Therapy Help?
Does your child seem talkative at home but shuts down in public or around others? They may be struggling with selective mutism—a childhood anxiety disorder that makes speaking in certain settings feel impossible. In this post, I share how play therapy can gently help children feel safe, express themselves, and begin to find their voice again.
Letting Go of Perfect: How to Support Your Perfectionist Child (and Heal Your Own Inner Critic)
I was 9 when a doctor told me I was a perfectionist. My mom and I were confused. We were looking for answers to physical symptoms like stomach aches, trouble sleeping, and constant tension — not a personality diagnosis. But years later, I understood exactly what she meant. I had grown up as the youngest of four kids — always trying to catch up, to prove I was just as smart, just as capable. As a girl, the pressure to be “perfect” came with extra layers: be smart, but not too smart. Be pretty, but not vain. Be accomplished, but effortless. And having ADHD only made that pressure heavier.It took me twice as long to get anything done.I’d forget things, lose things, zone out, fall behind.I always felt like I was running just to stay in place — and still behind everyone else. Why is it so easy for others? Why is it so hard for me? I lived in that comparison trap for years.
9 Vitamins & Supplements That Can Help Relieve Anxiety
Anxiety can greatly impact a person’s overall health and well-being, and if you struggle with this condition, you may be willing to do almost anything to relieve your symptoms. There are numerous lifestyle changes you can make to help manage your anxiety—for example, you could...
Supporting Your Child Through Back-to-School Anxiety
Summer Break is Almost Over! ☀️ As the new school year approaches, many children experience anxiety about returning to the classroom. As a parent, you can help ease this transition with these simple yet effective strategies: ✅ Listen & Validate Encourage open conversations about their...
Overcoming Performance Anxiety: Unleash Your Full Potential
Do you find yourself filled with dread and self-doubt whenever you're about to take center stage, speak in public, before or during a sporting competition, or face a challenging task? You're not alone. I used to fear speaking in front of a crowd and would...
Here’s How Social Isolation Affects Your Health
Many of us experienced social isolation during the recent pandemic. And none of us will deny that those days and weeks were very hard. Thankfully, the pandemic is over, and life for the majority of us has returned to normal. But for some people, social...
How to Deal with Social Anxiety after COVID
It has been a very long year. Lockdowns and social distancing have had a profound impact on our hearts and minds. But thankfully, as the vaccines roll out and the country begins to slowly open back up, we are beginning to return to some kind...