3 Ways to Combat Anxiety with the Shield of Faith
I get it, when you are in the throes of a particularly anxiety provoking situation, it’s hard to function, to move forward when a difficult circumstance is looming over you. It could be a relationship struggle, a health crisis, a wayward child, aging parents, financial burdens or grief. The list goes on and on really. Sometimes it’s not even the big things that cause us to be anxious, but that we are running on a high level of anxiety just in our day to day. The way I understand it, and I’m not a doctor nor am I an expert by any stretch, but when our bodies experience something that triggers our anxiety, especially if it’s a prolonged event, they will produce higher levels of cortisol as a result of being in a constant state of flight or fright. Those higher cortisol levels will feed on themselves perpetuating the feelings of anxiety even though the crisis has already passed. We literally have to teach our bodies that they are no longer ...
