🦋 The Struggle That Makes Us Strong

Over the past few weeks, we’ve gone on a journey together—one that peeled back the layers of what anxiety really is.

Let’s take a quick look back:

• Blog 1 revealed the subtle but powerful difference between stress and anxiety

• Blog 2 introduced the four hidden blocks—mental, emotional, physical, and energetic

• Blog 3 helped you identify your anxiety type: emotional, physical, or financial

• Blog 4 explored what physical anxiety feels like in the body

• Blog 5 gave insight into the roots of financial anxiety and how to retrain your brain

• Blog 6 uncovered the often unseen burden of emotional anxiety

• Blog 7 shared a personal story—and how, once I released a deeply buried emotional imprint, my body (and my smart ring!) showed immediate change

  
  

Each step revealed a deeper truth: Anxiety isn’t always what you think. It may be hidden, but it can be released.

Let’s shift for a moment.

Have you ever heard the story of the butterfly? Inside the cocoon, the caterpillar undergoes complete transformation. Before it can emerge, it must struggle—twisting, pressing, and pushing its way through the tiny opening. It’s not easy. It’s not gentle. But it’s necessary. That struggle is what strengthens its wings so it can fly. If someone tries to help—cutting the cocoon open to ease the process—the butterfly won’t survive. It won’t be strong enough to soar.

Our struggles, when acknowledged and processed, can also become the very thing that strengthens us. You don’t have to look far to find proof.  Viktor Frankl endured unimaginable suffering and turned it into meaning. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison and emerged a leader of peace and reconciliation. J.K. Rowling faced depression and poverty—and went on to write stories that inspired a generation. Each of them faced adversity, and through it, became more of who they were meant to be.

But what happens when a struggle or trauma gets stuck? What if the event, emotion, or trauma came too early—before we had the tools or support to move through it? What if the wound got buried, but the body remembered?

🧠 When the Past Keeps You Stuck

Some traumas, especially those that happen in childhood, don’t get processed like adult experiences. The brain simply wasn’t ready. Instead of being released, they get stored. Not always as memories—but as patterns. As protective layers. As anxiety.

This can affect how we show up in life today.

• Sleepless nights

• Trouble speaking up in relationships

• Overthinking, over giving, or withdrawing

• A sense of fear, insecurity, or never feeling "enough"

And because it’s been there so long, it starts to feel… normal. But it’s not.

🧭 Time to Take Inventory

Before we can change something, we have to see it. That’s why taking inventory is the first step.

Ask yourself:

• Where am I not thriving?

• Where do I feel stuck, tense, afraid or small?

• What do I avoid feeling or facing?

• Is there a pattern in my life that keeps repeating—no matter how hard I try to fix it?

  
  

These questions aren’t about judgment. They’re about awareness. Because the moment you begin to notice what’s been hiding is the same moment you begin to change it.

I’m currently developing an Anxiety Release Program—designed to help uncover and release the hidden emotional roots of anxiety so you can finally feel free, calm, and in control. My plan is to launch it early 2026. Until then, simply taking inventory is a powerful first step.

Your healing doesn’t begin with doing everything—it begins with noticing what needs attention.

With peace,

Lisha