I have been struggling with my mental wellness. I have yet to completely figure out why this ever started but within the last 3 years I have made realizations that helped me to have more days where I feel significantly better and my confidence is up and I feel full of energy. Right when I moved from Puerto Rico to Miami, I can take you back to the very place where I first realized I was feeling something negative. I probably spent a lot of time blaming the feelings on something because it was this battle in my own head that I had no idea what I was up against. Moving on through life, I spent those 20 something years with a sinking feeling in my chest, it would come and go. That took about 15 years to realize it was called “anxiety”. Through all of that I always felt something was wrong, constantly trying to find things that were wrong with me so that I would keep having something to blame it on. Being that I now tell stories for a living, I became very good and creative and making stories up in my head to fill the time, or try and find a reason for why I kept feeling this sinking feeling. Most stories were negative, I later learned that a lot of people tell themselves the worst. I started making all these realizations that maybe I wasn’t so different after all and I started using that creativity to flip it in my head and look at my differences as a positive. I think I found my value in those differences and it’s those differences that kept leading me to build myself up and change my mindset.

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