Making the Beast Beautiful: Ambitions, Breakdowns, and Pandemic Anxiety
“ I yearn for a complete sense of self; I’m not sure it’s something I can find or something I just have to wait for. I want to be authentic. I yearn to find the real me. I feel I am missing a connection with myself … I want to have yearning and be in this life. Everything seems to be fractured, rather than unified as my gut tells me ought to be the case. This stems from a yearning for the world to make sense, to fit together. I yearn for life direction and purpose … I want to know the real me, even if I have no idea what the real me is. To know the connection to a bigger force. To know that the universe has got this one. It burns at me every day to know that everything I’m doing makes sense. ” —Sarah Wilson, First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety Oh hi! How are you? It’s me! Are you there, anxiety? It’s me , Jeffrey. Are you still there, lovely blog readers? I hope so! It’s been far too long. So long, in fact, who knows where to even begin?! I figured we...