by DawnMcGrath | Mar 27, 2020 | Coach's Corner
Dear WELLcommunity friends, Lately, I am both afraid and compelled to open my social media feeds. I want to stay connected, yet I know that even the smallest of doses can cause my anxiety to spike and also bring physical pain from the overwhelming stress response....
by DawnMcGrath | Jan 14, 2020 | Trapped in an Air Pocket
Sometimes the wave takes me by surprise. Maybe I had my back to the water while watching my family playing on the sand. In the next moment, I’m knocked down, my source of oxygen removed. My mind and body tumble like rocks in the tumultuous surf. Fight or flight...
by DawnMcGrath | Oct 13, 2019 | Trapped in an Air Pocket
Trapped in an air pocket, coherence afloat in toxicity. Tolerate. Expand, don’t burst. Fragile but fertile. Seeds of doubt grow fears like towering redwood. Fly or float. Hover between ascents to oxygen debt and drops to pressurized depths. Evade jagged edges,...
by DawnMcGrath | Sep 30, 2019 | Coach's Corner
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope; you will fill yourself with hope. -Barack Obama Pay It Forward. Spread...
by DawnMcGrath | Sep 18, 2019 | Trapped in an Air Pocket
What does it feel like to function with anxiety and depression? Walking around with sandbags on my shoulders in a steady state of weariness. Negative trains of thought that never seem to arrive at a station A constant battle between hope and hopelessness Self-loathing...