nightmares

I Have Become Uncomfortably Numb

The process of changing medications sucks. Logically, the point of medications to manage anxiety, nightmares, and the eventual slide into the dark hole of depression is to make you feel better, right? But no one tells you how challenging the process of deducing what is best can be. I started this exercise last week. It’sContinue reading “I Have Become Uncomfortably Numb”

When Running Causes Nightmares

But are double-digit runs finally becoming less intimidating? I’m currently training for my 11th marathon. I’m also a person with high anxiety. This is both the reason why I run and why running can be so challenging at times. But it’s not the act of running itself that creates anxiety. That’s simply placing one footContinue reading “When Running Causes Nightmares”

I’ve always had them. I recalled my childhood night terrors to you in an earlier post: the man in the sky admonishing me for being a bad girl, accompanied by booming thunder and lightning. I was 3 or 4 when these began, and these dreams are among my first memories. As an adult, during timesContinue reading “Nightmares”

A Spiritual Revelation

I’m lying in my bed. It’s night time. I’m awakened by the sounds of rain, pounding harder by the second on the roof and against my window, and then suddenly, that sound is punctuated by booming thunder and bright lightning. The thunder is so monstrous that it shakes my room. It’s accompanied by an equallyContinue reading “A Spiritual Revelation”