Living with your Thoughts

Tracy Moxey

We live with our thousands of thoughts everyday. These thoughts determine how we live our lives, our success, our downfalls, our illness, our quality of life. Whether we are at peace or at war with ourselves. Join me and explore where your thoughts originate and how you can learn to manage them. If something in you is ready for change...if you're tired of doing it alone...if you know there's more for you but you're not sure how to access it yet - this is your invitation. I would be honoured to walk that journey with you. Book your session via https://calendly.com/tmoxey99/new-meeting-1

  1. Oct 9

    Episode 253 What if Anxiety Is Not something you need to get rid of - Harness Your Anxiety

    Anxiety doesn’t necessarily need to be eliminated—it can be understood, regulated, and harnessed as information. The goal is not to live without anxiety, but to learn how to experience it without allowing it to make our decisions. Key ideas: ​Anxiety is an alarm system. Like an overly sensitive smoke alarm, it can detect something—but it may mistake discomfort, uncertainty, or change for actual danger.​The nervous system can learn hypervigilance. Past instability, uncertainty, or experiences where we needed to stay alert can teach us to anticipate, control, overthink, and prepare for every possible outcome.​Control can become a trap. Constant planning, checking, reassurance-seeking, and rehearsing can be attempts to create certainty where certainty isn't possible.​Look beneath the anxiety. Ask:◦What am I afraid will happen? ◦If that happened, what would I be afraid it means about me? ◦What am I trying to control? ​Develop self-trust rather than total certainty. A powerful shift is from “I need to know everything will be okay” to “I don't have to know exactly what will happen to know I can meet whatever happens.”​Anxiety doesn't have to drive. You can feel anxious and still act, set boundaries, have difficult conversations, or move forward.​Regulate before reacting. Notice the body's activation, breathe, feel your feet, look around, and remind yourself: “My system is activated. I am here, right now.”​Respond with curiosity, not shame. Instead of “Why am I like this?”, ask “What happened that taught me to respond this way?”​Separate the signal from the story. Not everything an anxious mind presents deserves attention. Determine whether there is a real problem requiring action or simply uncertainty that cannot yet be solved.​Anxiety is not an identity. There is a difference between “I am an anxious person” and “I am a person experiencing anxiety.”Central takeaway: Anxiety can have a seat at the table without getting the final vote. Closing message:Harnessing anxiety means recognizing the signal, understanding what it may be communicating, regulating the body, questioning the story when necessary, and then choosing what to do next. Anxiety may be part of your experience, but it doesn't have to write your story—you still get to choose what happens next.

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We live with our thousands of thoughts everyday. These thoughts determine how we live our lives, our success, our downfalls, our illness, our quality of life. Whether we are at peace or at war with ourselves. Join me and explore where your thoughts originate and how you can learn to manage them. If something in you is ready for change...if you're tired of doing it alone...if you know there's more for you but you're not sure how to access it yet - this is your invitation. I would be honoured to walk that journey with you. Book your session via https://calendly.com/tmoxey99/new-meeting-1