I hope this email finds everyone well! Finally recovered from being sick I'm back to a hectic pace. I have a photo shoot with a magazine for their July issues: they are going to list all of my favorite things. You all know my preppy favs: Lilly Pulitzer and things to celebrate summer. Thank goodness there is hair and make up-I look haggard and could use to lose some weight-I'll beg for air brushing!
Tomorrow the barn where I ride will be celebrating 1st class at The Devon Horse show (with Lilly Pulitzer and Carson Kressley). We leave the shore in a limo bus, the competition starts at 7PM. We've decorated a barn in pink and it is catered. Of course you know I'll get you tons of photo's! So 2 late nights require hair and make up, and a mani!
I'm once again a therapy drop out. After 3 sessions I just don' t see the point. It's expensive ( I could have used the money at the spa). She wants to know were my parents critical/controlling? No. Is Husband not supportive of your dreams? No.Why are you so driven? I just am, I say. No one can find anything wrong with me. I just have anxiety, so I'll read a book, meditate, take supplements, go to a mindful course, breath, and take a beta blocker when nothing else works.
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I tried therapy once, and first thing they tried to do is blame my parents for everything. My parents are amazing! So I too am a drop out. Maybe we need to start a support group for drop outs. LOL!
ReplyDeleteI am sure you will look gorgeous in the magazine spread. You look very very tiny in the LA pics! :)
Enjoy the party, looking forward to pics-lots of them!
Glad you are feeling better, and it sounds like you have some good times coming up! ...I say follow your own dose of medicine and keep looking forward...it has worked thus far! :) xoxo
ReplyDeleteAlso a therapy dropout. Tried to blame my parents and then blamed my "alcoholism." Last time I checked, a glass of wine every other night was pretty normal. Idiot therapists.
ReplyDeleteYour caveman ancestors survived to breed because anxiety led the not to be eaten by a saber-tooth tiger. Blame your genetics then have a cocktail.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see the magazine article! I understand re the anxiety...
ReplyDeleteBlonde Magnolia..there is a support group for that....it meets each day at 5 p.m. at the Bar...
ReplyDeleteBeth...Gran Prix night at Devon will be great..good weather forecast and a tremendous line-up of riders.....I will be there with my daughter...so maybe I will bump into you...and will try not to spill my G&T on you when I do...
I SWEAR by the Anxiety Workbook, won't post a link but go to Amazon and search ISBN-10: 1572244135
ReplyDeleteIt's just exercises -- no finding the 'root' of your problem (aka leaving your parents out of this!) but giving you tools to process the anxiety. its a lifesaver, highly recommend
Best of luck at the photo shoot, how exciting! xox
ReplyDeleteLOL Main Line Sportsman!
ReplyDeleteThe problem is, a therapy can only be effective, if one goes there longer and which is also important, you have to get involved.
ReplyDeleteThe therapist have to ask for family background, really often there is the crack point.
It is naturally unfortunate that one must pay very much in the USA. That is different here in Germany.
Anyway, I wish you all the best!
i look forward to the pictures from your event and your magazine photo shoot. have a great time and take care.
ReplyDeleteHave fun at the photo shoot! And I can't wait to see your pics from that event.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the questions from the therapist, it sounds like you have your own remedy for anxiety. I thought it was a therapist job to find out the answers to the questions she was asking you, not take the lazy-way out and get them from you. Make her work for it.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're feeling better...in more ways than one. :-)
Glad you're feeling better. Sorry the therapy didn't work out. Have so much fun at the event, and you better take lots of photos! Love living vicariously through you. :) Cheers!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see pics of a pink decorated barn! You are a regular VIP lately lady!
ReplyDeletelooking forward to photos. glad you made the right choice for you regarding therapy!
ReplyDeleteI think WE should be your therapy. We all support you and love you and love the fact that you're so driven. I think that's a good quality. Now if you had to bring other down to lift yourself up then I would be worried. But I don't see that at all. I see someone who is climbing to the top and inviting all of us to come along with you.
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly, I'm a therapy dropout as well... when I finally figured out I could analyze myself, thank you very much! Besides, a blog is the best therapy I know of.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you got sickly upon return. Airplanes are breeding grounds for germs.
Everything you've done & all that you have planned sounds perfectly mahvelous, darling. You get out there & milk it for all the fun you can. You deserve it! Who would dare to give you any anxiety? I say have a glass of wine and smile, no matter what. Always smile. Never let them see you flinch or cry. YOU have nothing to worry about my dear...
keeping you in my thoughts and prayers big sis and I agree that if you aren't getting anything out of it, there are more fun ways to spend the moolah!
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I have anxiety attacks as well, but never considered going to a therapist because I do not want to be on any meds. I feel like people are out of it when they are on meds and dependent on them. Two things I dont want. I practice my yoga and pilates breath when I'm having anxiety. I find controlled breathing really does help...or at least it tricks me into thinking it helps! Hope the anxiety eventually fades away for you and I both!
ReplyDeleteI love all of you peeps (or blends), and this is great therapy for me. I just thought I would give it a try, again. And once again, I was correct--it is helpful but not a solution. Must find it in myself, as always. xoxo
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Glad you're feeling better! You sound super busy but the photo shoot will be fun and you always look fabulous no matter what! You know yourself best so do what you think is best! Hope you have a great end of the week!
ReplyDeleteObviously, it's possible that therapy's just not your thing, and certainly you know yourself best. But I wonder if maybe your expectations of what therapy is supposed to accomplish may be contributing to your dissatisfaction -- the whole point of therapy *is* to help you find the solution to within yourself! The therapist him- or herself doesn't have any magic bullets; he or she is there to help figure out what triggers your anxiety and how to use your innate skills and resources to mitigate the impact the anxiety has on the rest of your life.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I am fully aware that what I've described is therapy at its ideal, which doesn't always match up with therapy in practice, and also that it doesn't take into account therapists/psychiatrists who prescribe medication as part of the course of treatment for their clients/patients.
Lilly and Carson... HEAVEN!
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry you are sick! Hope you feel better soon :)
ReplyDeleteI love blogging... it is the best therapy for ME!
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