Woke up feeling a bit anxious this morning. Nothing overwhelming, but definitely there. I laid and focused on deep breathing for a while as I continued to slowly wake up. Then, as I was journaling, I thought that I could use the anxiety. Something I've been working on lately is daily maintenance... meditation, relaxation exercises, stuff like that to help with managing stress and anxiety and to learn to reframe anxiety and difficult emotions. If things are going well, and I'm not having to deal with discomfort, I start the deprioritize the maintenance and either start skipping things or squeezing them in somewhere just to be able to check the box that I did them. It's a thing I'm aware of and am actually trying to work on right now. So with anxiety showing up for a visit I thought I'd reframe it from, "ugh... anxious feelings, great." to "well, this will give me an opportunity to work on things and a motivation to get my maintenance back on track". I mean, why should the anxiety be the only one getting something out of these visits? For the moment, at least, that seems to have deflated the feelings some and taken some of the ferocity out of the bark.