Day 1

Life is like the ocean; sometimes calm and beautiful, sometimes rough and ugly. Lately, I've been feeling more of the rough and ugly part. This is the start of my journey through my battle with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Panic Disorder (aka panic attacks). The whole point of this is that I want to recognize the beauty in life, reminding myself during the difficult days that life is truely worth living for (cause sometimes my brain makes me think it's not. Stupid serotonin).

I've been reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and the book gave me the idea for this blog. (If you haven't read the book, I recommend it for it is very soul searching). I will (try) to blog daily 3 things: something I did for pleasure, something I prayed for, and a loving act I did for someone. If you read the book it will make much more sense. Eat/pleasure, Pray, and Love.

Day 1:

Pleasure: Today I walked downtown, stopped at a coffee shop and had a latte with my best friend.
Pray: Today I prayed for my family in Kentucky whose homes were damaged in the flood.
Love: Today I exercised my mom's pups (Bella and Samson, who are the loves of my life, beside my fiance, Logan) for her. Trust me, that is quite the job with a lab/collie mix who I think is ADD (oh look, a car! oh, a ball! oh!) and a 9 week old chocolate lab. (I think my mom is crazy.)