Anxiety and POSITIVE CHOICES Community Group
Learn the skills to conquer overwhelming anxiety from physical to emotional coping. We can choose how we feel and think, you just have to be willing to make those changes and commit to them.
I joined a church! Now I gotta go! :)
I drive by this church daily and yearn to be able to go in without anxiety. I have been there probably 9 times in 9 years. I drove up and went into the office to get the paperwork to move our letters from our church in Jacksonville and I have a pledge card, etc.
Fortunately, they have Saturday night service. I tend to feel better as the day goes on. Also, I know from experience the more I go the easier it will be.
I've felt awful not going all these years. My daughter's gone when she was back from college and this past Christmas she tried to get me to go to Christmas Eve service and i just couldn't.
I am excited. I will take it slow and go in the back door and volunteer in the background until I feel comfortable.
Betsy
I drive by this church daily and yearn to be able to go in without anxiety. I have been there probably 9 times in 9 years. I drove up and went into the office to get the paperwork to move our letters from our church in Jacksonville and I have a pledge card, etc.
Fortunately, they have Saturday night service. I tend to feel better as the day goes on. Also, I know from experience the more I go the easier it will be.
I've felt awful not going all these years. My daughter's gone when she was back from college and this past Christmas she tried to get me to go to Christmas Eve service and i just couldn't.
I am excited. I will take it slow and go in the back door and volunteer in the background until I feel comfortable.
Betsy
Being around people is too much of an anxiety trigger for me. I'm working on it little bits at a time. I commend you for being able to even just drive to it...sometimes just that is too much for me.
Your intention is certainly strong. You did great going into the office to get the paperwork and pledge card and such!
Since you know that the more you go the easier it will be, focus on just going one time rather than joining and going on a regular basis and volunteering and... Just take one little piece, and have fun preparing to go just one time.
I like the joke: how do you eat an elephant? One piece at a time. :)
when i lost most all my family in a short period of time, i could not bring myself to go to church!
if i did, i sat and cried most of the service!!
i had so ,any emotions going on at that time..
it was so hard!
now,i still have trouble with it???
not like before..
i was the piano player, and sang many times at church meetings and at other churches too, but seems that since my mother died, i cant do it anymore!
i love going to church, but things have changed so much!
dont get me wrong...
i know i need to go, i just havent found were i fit yet...
iam glad your in a church, it helps so much!
yes, it will take a little time, but it will be ok!
bren