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🧠 Therapist | Writer | High-Functioning Anxiety Expert
🎙️ As featured on GMA, Huffpost, SHAPE, + More
🙌 Helping anxious overthinkers who look calm on the outside—but feel anything but.

02/12/2026

If you struggle with high-functioning anxiety, urgency can feel contagious. A stressed tone, a last-minute request, a disappointed face and suddenly your nervous system is acting like there’s a fire to put out.

But not every raised voice requires your immediate attention. Not every time-sensitive request requires you to de-prioritize yourself.

A few ways to practice this:

✔️ Pause before responding. Urgency thrives on immediacy. Give yourself space. “Let me think about that and get back to you.”

✔️ Check your body. If you feel tight, rushed, or pressured, that’s information. Slow down instead of speeding up.

✔️ Ask: Is this actually mine to fix? Discomfort is not the same as responsibility.

✔️ Use neutral boundaries. “I’m not able to do that today.” No overexplaining. No apologizing for existing.

You are allowed to move at a regulated pace. You don’t have to be held hostage to their urgency.

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02/09/2026

✨You’re probably familiar with the most common physical anxiety symptoms like elevated heart rate, trembling, or quickened breathing…

But did you know anxiety can cause a really wide range of physical symptoms?

Here are some often overlooked physical anxiety symptoms:

✔️ Having the sensation that there is a lump in your throat or having trouble swallowing

✔️ Having cold hands and feet (blood is diverted away from your hands and feet when you’re in fight or flight mode)

✔️ Feeling urgency to urinate frequently (the pelvic floor and ab muscles can tense up during periods of stress and cause bladder contractions)

✔️ Anxiety p**p (not a clinical term but includes things like diarrhea, constipation, nausea, bloating and excess gas)

✔️ Excessive Yawning (anxiety can cause a number of physiological changes that alter how we process air which can trigger excessive yawning in some people)

✔️ The feeling of pins and needles, tingling, or numbness (most often happens in the extremities)

Now, super important to note here - these symptoms don’t always point to anxiety, but they CAN. Please get checked out by a doctor if you’re experiencing any new or unusual symptoms.

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02/07/2026

“Is this a legitimate red flag that my intuition is warning me about, or is it just my anxiety talking?”

Here are 5 things you can do to help answer that question:

1️⃣ Check in with your body. Anxiety is often accompanied by physical sensations like a tightening in the stomach or chest, sweating, or elevated heart rate. Intuition is often accompanied by a sense of calm or knowing.

2️⃣ Examine the driving force. Anxiety is often driven by a sense of fear and dread while intuition often comes with a sense of clarity and is driven by self-protection and self-awareness.

3️⃣ Does it make sense or does it feel overly emotional or irrational? Intuition often lines up with what you know to be true, while anxiety is often based on unfounded fears/worries.

4️⃣ Get feedback from a loved one. It never hurts to get wisdom and feedback from someone who can listen and share their perspective!

5️⃣ Make sure your anxiety is well-managed. Untreated or unmanaged anxiety is a recipe for lots of irrational thinking and dysregulation which can make it really difficult to hear your intuition clearly.

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02/03/2026

Unless you’ve live this experience, it’s so difficult to describe to others who may only associate anxiety with feeling a little nervous or worried.

But if you’ve been here, you know…

And while you may feel isolated in your experience, I want you to know this:

You’re not alone. Not in this space.

I grew up with this kind of crippling anxiety experience.

In fact, I spent many of my younger years in and out of hospitals because my my anxiety, depression, and resulting addictions were so disruptive. I get it.

If there’s only one message I can impart, it would be this:

There is so much hope. So much healing possible. And I say this as a licensed therapist, but also as someone who has lived it.

Do you relate with this struggle? Let’s connect about it in the comments.

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01/30/2026

Nothing to see here. Just being my chill, relaxed self. 😅

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01/28/2026

✨When you weren’t allowed to express your emotions as a child—when they were dismissed, punished, or made you feel like a burden—you learned to protect yourself. And one of the safest places to escape? Your head.

Overthinking often isn’t about being careful or prepared. It’s a defense mechanism. A way to stay busy thinking so you don’t have to feel.

It’s what helped you survive when feeling was unsafe. But now, it keeps you stuck—second-guessing, spiraling, and disconnected from yourself.

You’re not broken. You adapted—and now you can learn to reconnect with what your overthinking was trying to protect you from.

📣 One thing you can do to start: Download my FREE “Breaking the Overthinking Spiral” 10 page PDF guide. I’ll walk you through 6 easy and practical steps you can begin using right away to step out of overthinking and step IN to peace, calm, and clarity.

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01/26/2026

Anxiety from gut issues? Gut issues from anxiety?Yes and yes (unfortunately)!

Anxiety and gut issues have a chicken-and-egg relationship and that’s what makes them so frustrating.

Anxiety can disrupt digestion by altering gut motility, increasing sensitivity, and changing the gut microbiome. You feel bloated, nauseous, crampy, have a sudden urge to p**p, and your body goes on high alert.

But here’s the other side: your gut and brain are in constant conversation through the gut–brain axis. When your gut is inflamed, imbalanced, or irritated, it can send danger signals upward, triggering anxiety, panic, or a sense that something isn’t right—even when nothing external is wrong.

So people end up stuck in a loop:
👉Anxiety upsets the gut.
👉Gut symptoms fuel more anxiety.
👉And the cycle reinforces itself.

This is why “just calming your thoughts” often isn’t enough. And why “just fixing your gut” without addressing nervous system regulation can fall short too.

Breaking the cycle usually means working both directions at once—supporting the body and the nervous system, with patience and compassion.

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01/24/2026

Not trying to brag, but I’ve been doing this a long time, so… 🤷‍♀️😂

📣 Are you an overthinker? Download my FREE “Breaking the Overthinking Spiral” 10 page PDF guide. I’ll walk you through 6 easy and practical steps you can begin using right away to step out of overthinking and step IN to peace, calm, and clarity.

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01/20/2026

🙂 For some of us, living in hiding underneath an “I’m good” exterior feels like the safest thing to do.

Vulnerability is scary. Being truly seen can feel like a threat.

But oftentimes underneath the surface is where distress and anxiety tend to brew.

Anxious thoughts can feel overwhelming. Insecurities can loop again and again.

Is this something you tend to struggle with? Let’s talk about it in the comments!

📣 If you haven’t downloaded my new FREE “Breaking the Overthinking Spiral” PDF guide, make sure get it right now! I’ll walk you through 6 easy and practical steps you can begin using right away to step out of overthinking and step IN to peace, calm, and clarity. Comment SPIRAL and I’ll send it to your inbox right now!

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01/15/2026

The urge to psychoanalyze out in the wild can be a strong one sometimes… Boundaries, though. 🫠😂

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01/13/2026

A lot of us are living like everything is urgent.
Like every email, every decision, every conflict, every job outcome carries life-or-death weight.

But oftentimes when we get in that mode, it’s because we’ve lost perspective.

It’s not that circumstances aren’t important, because they are. But our anxious minds will tell us everything hinges on climbing the corporate ladder quickly, getting engaged by a certain age, or having 2.5 kids and a dog within an arbitrary timeframe.

We often think in absolutes and shy away from what is best for us because we think things “must look a certain way.”

What if your nervous system doesn’t need more pressure? (Hint… it doesn’t.)

Zoom out and remember what’s important.

You being okay matters.
Your mental health matters.

Because when your mental health is compromised, everything else starts to wobble: your clarity, your patience, your sense of self, your ability to make good decisions.

Jobs can be replaced.
Roles can change.
Relationships can shift or end.

But you only get one nervous system. One mind. One body to live inside for the rest of your life.

So if something is costing you your peace, your safety, or your mental health, it deserves to be questioned — no matter how “important” it looks on paper.

What’s one way you can shift toward taking care of yourself today? Let’s talk about it in the comments!

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