Tag: anxiety
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Success Doesn’t Always Feel Good
IT’S BOOK LAUNCH DAY! Well, folks, it’s book launch day! You can find my new novel, Violindy, on Amazon and here on my website. Getting to this moment has been a wild ride, and it’s certainly not over yet. But I wanted to be honest with you and take a moment before the party tonight…
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The Myth of Improvement
I’M STILL MENTALLY ILL I realized this week that it’s been a while since I wrote about mental illness. So long, actually, that you might have found yourself wondering: “Is Ashleyne still mentally ill?” Why, yes, in fact! I am still mentally ill. And it’s looking like that will be true for the rest of…
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Winning a War on Shame – Part II
This post is a continuation of last week’s saga, which you can read here. WHEN THINGS GOT AWKWARD Where were we? Oh, right. Ten years of hiding my self-worth issues under socks and toenail polish. Well, finally, on Friday I messaged my doctor. “What changed?” you might ask. “Why this week?” A great question. I…
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Winning a War On Shame – Part I
WINNING A WAR ON SHAME Hi! It’s me. I’ve been out of the blog office for a while. Life, you know? But this week, something happened that seemed like it was never going to happen, and I feel like I have to share it with you. Here it is: after ten years of ongoing battles,…
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Anxiety Manifest
HOW WILL MY ANXIETY MANIFEST TODAY? Anxiety is a strange monster. It doesn’t always weigh logic or statistics. In fact, it rarely references the sciences at all. Sometimes it creeps in; sometimes it attacks like a hippopotamus on the good drugs. It’s rarely predictable and even less common for anxiety to be helpful. The person…