The Way To with Audrey

🥺🥺🥺 I mean, they are all rooting for YOU 🥺🥺🥺

When I was really anxious, I felt like I was flighting a battle against myself, that I never could win. I felt anxious if I made plans or asked myself to do too many things. I felt anxious if I sat still. If I sat still I thought about things I should be doing, and if I kept busy I thought about how desperately I wanted to get home and lock the door behind me. Sound familiar?! 😥

I was a little OCD too if I’m honest. I came up with these lists of things I needed to accomplish, and if I didn’t get everything done - cleaning, errands, organizing etc. - I couldn’t start on my real work (my goals). Which essentially meant I never started on my goals.

And of course that was another source of anxiety - thinking about all the things I could be doing on a bigger scale, but that I wasn’t. If this all sounds crazy to you, it should cause it definitely felt crazy.

Was it all strict self-care that got me out of anxiety? Nope. Or was it all giving in and letting myself be? Ya, not that either.

If you’re operating on one end of the pendulum , or you’re swinging back and forth (like I was), I have a thought for you:

Focus less on your structure, or less on your freedom, and focus more on learning to identify the things in your life that make you feel genuinely lighter.

If you can start to understand things less in terms of work vs. play, and more in terms of high-frequency vs. low, or grounded-ness vs. chaos, you’ll start to align with the way you want to feel faster, and you can slowly leave the excessive regimen or the laziness behind, and step more into flow 🥰.

Raise your hand ✋🏼if after years of shadow work you’re still afraid to let someone support you / see you in a real low 🤪🤪🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️!!

If your body is stressed, you will be too 💕. How can you take some pressure off your body today?

NO IT'S NOT OKAY TO SKIP PROTEIN. I don't care about your reasons. You need 20-30 grams of high-quality, well-sourced protein at every meal. Why? Because the amino acids in protein are the building blocks for all 4 groups of your neurotransmitters (which regulate your mood).

HOW TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE DRINKING ENOUGH WATER 💦 💧 Not to be creepy, but I’m watching you 👀. Check the carousel above, and let me know which tip was the most surprising to you??

Hey babe - if you're waking up, drinking little to no water, and drinking a BIG cup of coffee on an empty stomach. You're contributing to your anxiety. EAT with caffeine, or avoid caffeine altogether.

STOP 🛑 asking for everyone else’s opinions. You don’t need them.

Did you see my IGTV from yesterday on this EXACT topic? Curious if it landed or not - it was more stream of consciousness and I really liked how it flowed.

Shoot me a DM or comment if you felt it

🚨🚨🚨Name change!!

I’ve been through SO MANY ITERATIONS in the last year, but the truth is, I’ve changed so it’s no surprise.

When I started this journey early last year I KNEW I was diving into something that I was fully unprepared for. But that’s what made it so f*cking thrilling and incredible. And that’s why I had to do it.

What’s more, if I was honest, I needed another name for the biz at the time because I was too damn scared to hold myself accountable. Today, it’s different. I’m different, and I’m settled in.

Embrace the changes, because it’s part of it, and who really gives a FCK? Poco a poco, little by little, you have to keep coming back even when it feels awkward and you feel like you don’t know WTF you’re doing (me 🙋🏻‍♀️).

Because that IS how it happens. It’s not linear and whoever tells you it was fir them either will face bigger lessons in other areas of life, or is lying.

Here’s to a new chapter: Audrey Ann Health! 💜🙏🏻✨

ONE MAJOR THING THAT SECRETLY DRIVES ANXIETY 👇🏼⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The desire for more/for a life out of the ordinary/to take risks — SQUASHED 🥾 by the application of other people’s rules and opinions that don’t allow ❌ for that kind of freedom.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A LOT of us these days are emotionally much deeper, more sensitive, more open-minded about what’s REAL in life and all the different ways it could be lived, more empathic and spiritual, are more in touch with the unseen world than our peers/parents traditionally have been. (NO JUDGEMENT!)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And it makes us feel different.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And different on an instinctual, evolutionary level isn’t SAFE. Originally, if you broke out from the pack you were at much greatest risk of survival. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It’s like the basic programming that is downloaded into all humans at birth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But we’re changing, and when all of these sweet sensitive souls try — like YOU & I — try to apply old rules to a new level of consciousness, it’s MFN UNCOMFORTABLE 🤪🤪🤪.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And if you’re one of these deep souls, trying to apply ‘normal rules’ to life isn’t going to JIVE with your intuition/Highest Self 👀.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You with me? 🙏🏻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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But most of us don’t yet know that the RULES ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT US. We judge ourselves for not fitting into the norm and even HATE ourselves for not being able to thrive in the status quo. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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>> Enter: ANXIETY 👹⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So you, my sweet love, need not figure out how to make the normal rules for life apply to you...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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You instead need to:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1️⃣ Find the one-in-kajillion way that you are unique.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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2️⃣ Find your intuition.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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3️⃣ Find the courage to STAND OUT.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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4️⃣ Start LIVING on a blank slate, no rules.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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5️⃣ Call 📞 me & report how good you feel.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Audrey Ann