Hi Reader,

For years, I would've sworn I was pretty good at managing stress.

I drank the water.

I did the yoga.

I took the deep breaths.

I rested.

I was doing all the things you're supposed to do.

And yet...

Adrenaline.

Palpitations.

Dizziness.

Random weird body shit.

Which left me with one perfectly reasonable question:

WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING?!

I'm calm.

It's supposed to work.

LOOK AT ME CALM.

😂

It took me an embarrassingly long time to notice the problem with that statement.

Turns out...

I was aggressively relaxing.

And once I saw what I was actually doing, it changed the way I thought about “managing” anxiety completely.

This week's article is about that.

→ Read: I Was Aggressively Relaxing​

Keep it brash.
Keep it true to you.

Because you matter.

Lisa

P.S. The yoga was innocent. It had simply been assigned a job it was never qualified for.