Anxiety and Trouble Sleeping

Does anxiety cause sleeplessness or does sleeplessness cause anxiety? This question is forever being debated by both mental health providers and researchers alike. What we know for sure if that for some people, symptoms of anxiety like excessive fear or worrying, feelings of panic, and restlessness can get worse in the evening, which can create a cycle of being unable to fall asleep or stay asleep. When this happens, people have a tendency to becoming anxious about having anxiety about sleeping! Sounds exhausting right?!

High Functioning Anxiety

Do you feel distressed about a multitude of things but still operate normally in your every day life? Do your worries about potential problems in the future propel you to plan and act now? Are you afraid of disappointing others? Do you fear failure? Do you frequently overthink things or replay situations in your head? Do you procrastinate tasks that need to be completed followed by long periods of crunch-time work? Do your thoughts often feel like they are racing?

Do You Struggle With Change?

To some degree, we are all creatures of habit... we organize our lives in a predictable, well thought out pattern, we enjoy being comfortable, we like knowing what is coming next. But what happens when life throws you a curve ball, when the circumstances of our life sudden shift underneath our feet, when we are forced to change?

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