Stress Center Peer Support

Hello, I have been through the program and have made many, great strides in overcoming anxiety and panic attacks BUT now I have an opportunity to travel cross country and I am nervous about being so far from home. I would be with some family and I know I could get help if needed but I am still nervous about going. I don't have too - but it is a nice opportunity. The travel would be by car and a family member would be driving. So, I guess I just need some cheerleading to encourage me to not let fear ruin a perfectly good opportunity to have some fun. Any words of encouragement would be appreciated. One disappointment I have with myself is I thought I was beyond this. Guess I got more growing to do that I realized! Thanks!

You can do this.. bring something with you from home that you can carry with you. Start a vacation journal be focused on what you see write down what you see and hear and what you like about what you are experiencing. Remind yourself its a great experience you are experiencing with some of your family members. Have a wonderful time.

freemeto, thank you for your words of encouragement and great ideas. That should help distract me from obsessing about body symptoms and looking for exits with hospitals. Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Go and enjoy your self take your session books and read them keep positive self talk and you will enjoy it alot you may never have this chance again Let us no how you come out.

Hello-

I hope you go, and I hope you have a great time. Keeping a journal is a great idea. I bet you'll see growth as you go. I'd like to hear your story when you are home again. Bon Voyage.

Hi Kay and newrunner: Thank you both for your encouragement and the great ideas. They are both great. I am actually looking more forward to going now. I'll definately check in and share my journey. Thanks again.

Hello! I just wanted to update everyone who encouraged me or needs encouragement themselves. I just returned from a 8 day trip with some family members. We drove over 3500 miles!! I went through snow at Monarch Pass in Colorado at an altitude over 11,000 feet! I wasn't driving but I did great! One big YEAH! was I didn't go to an ER or clinic the whole time and this is the first trip I have taken in a long time where that didn't happen!! No panic attacks. I did have some body symptoms but I worked through them and now we are back home. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me as I was nervous about going. I know that working through the program helped to make a difference and I am so thankful that I did go and get to see some beautiful scenery and spend some wonderful time with family. And I did see growth in myself and it is a wonderful feeling.

WOW-- good for you!!! You did awesome and you'll never be the "same" gal as the one before you left because you did so much by incorporating what you learned. I think that is sometimes the big hurdle. Actually doing something in reality rather than thinking about it in the abstract fuzzy future.

Enjoy your wonderful feeling. You've done a great thing for yourself, and I'm so glad that it turned out to be fun and beautiful and great times with your family.

Thanks for reporting back and helping alot of people here.

Hey simpletruths take it from a girl that moved 1999 miles from all family, friends, and church home GO FOR IT you may find it to be like an adventure and it may even bring you closer to God and all of the good things He has in store for you.

Thanks newrunner and Lonely Le Ann, proof that this program helps tremendously and God is faithful to bring us out from anything that would try to keep us down. I still have some things to work through but I am not where I was! I have faith that I will continue to get better and have victory in every area of my life.