Let's explore new ideas, things and places together!I invite you all to join in and help me create a community of people willing to have a go, with no judgement, with clear instructions to help avoid any fears and a willingness to learn something new to you!
Anxious Explorers Club
Let's explore new ideas, things and places together!
Let's not do the usual New Year's resolutions; whether you're feeling positive or negative, often the heralding in of the new year leaves us feeling a bit flat. The twinkling lights, merriment and Christmas cheer is replaced with a cold and wet January...and resolutions, no matter the good intentions get left behind for realities quickly.
The Anxious Explorers Club invite's you to join me in challenging ourselves to a year of explorations! Are you ready to join in; whether you are starting from scratch or continuing from 2025, you are welcome here!
Each month we will focus on different areas to explore, both physically and mentally, to attempt to finish 2026 in a more confident and positive place.
Why do I feel that this is better than New Year's resolutions I hear you ask? Well resolutions are often built on negative self beliefs and are based on the idea that you can just give something up that may be a long term habit, often based on a coping mechanism. Smoking for example isn't just a habit for fun its often a form of meditation and escape, I believe that most of us need to build healthier & happier habits before we can just give it up.
Fear stops us from doing new things; fear of the unknown, fear of being laughed at for doing something wrong, fear perhaps of what change might bring...those voices in our heads are our childhood coping strategies, put there in the belief that they will protect us from bad things happening. As adults they don't always work quite as well, instead stopping us from finding happiness in new things...but unlearning them can be a real bitch!
Often when we are struggling in life we return to old favourites, old habits and the things we know and feel safe in, stuck in a pattern of the same movies that comfort us, music that is safe and familiar and the places and people that we are used to, whether we feel happy or not, it's better the devil we know!
But what if there is a better, happier and more confident world for us out there?
What if simple changes were the start of a more positive and less anxious existence? It's not easy but together perhaps we can encourage each other, step by step out of our comfort zone and in to the unknown but safely and in manageable bite sized pieces, alleviating the anxiety!
Each month we will focus in on a subject or theme; join in from wherever you are in the world. Doing this online means that anyone can join in from anywhere in the world, hopefully finding new friends and a sense of confidence in knowing that perhaps more people than you thought are just a little bit more anxious than you knew!
