Sometimes we are merely existing, and it feels like the world is caving in. Life can feel insanely frustrating and overwhelming all at the same time. When we feel like the world is closing in, our fight/flight/freeze/fawn/flop mechanisms kick into high gear. We all deal with fear and frustration differently. Most of the time we either fight or we experience flight, but the ones talked about the least is freeze, fawn, flop. Fight: facing the challenge head on rather aggressive

We have all had times where we have felt stuck and we don't know what is coming next. When we have felt helpless and hopeless. Those are the times where generally one of two things will happen: we rise to the challenge or we are consumed by the despair of our circumstance. More often than not when we rise to the challenge we see our own strength and our confidence builds. It is not always easy to face the challenges in our lives. Sometimes we need to give ourselves permission