by Melanie Makovsky | Jun 13, 2022 | Anxiety
The 5 W’s and the H: Anxiety Edition Do you remember when you learned how to write? Not just how to form letters or spell words, but how to write an essay or an article or a story? I distinctly remember a poster hung high on the wall in my classroom in 3rd grade that...
by Melanie Makovsky | May 30, 2022 | Anxiety
I can’t say for sure when or where or how I realized that the outdoors was the antidote for my crippling anxiety, but I know it happened sometime after my family of five people moved from Virginia to California, entirely on our own. We drove, with my husband driving...
by Melanie Makovsky | May 23, 2022 | Anxiety
I got married in 2002, so my husband and I are coming up on our 20th wedding anniversary this July, but on that date we had already been a couple for more than two and a half years, and I definitely thought I knew him better than anyone else. But we are different....
by Melanie Makovsky | May 9, 2022 | Anxiety
During the summer after 7th grade a friend and I were invited to go along on a bus trip with the Girl Scouts. We would be spending 3 full days in Washington D.C., doing the full tourist experience, with the added benefit of being a part of a touring group, which would...
by Melanie Makovsky | Apr 2, 2022 | Anxiety
I was sitting on the couch in my living room, listening to an audio book with my headphones on and folding laundry. The kids were at school, and it was just me and my dogs and cats in the otherwise quiet house. I could see colored leaves just beginning to fall from...
