Writing down your anxious thoughts gets it out of your head and onto a page and creates some distance between you and the cause of your anxiety. If you subscribe to the idiom 'out of sight out of mind' and put your written thoughts in a locked drawer and then give it a week you may well find that another idiom 'this too shall pass' has come to fruition.#writedownyourthoughts #writedownyourworries

What do you enjoy that calms you down? Of course, there's that thing we do every week, yoga, but what else? Any other kind of movement? Or it could also be taking a catnap, or languishing in a warm bath, or reading, or playing the piano, or doing a cryptic crossword, or baking bread, or sitting down on the sofa with your dog or cat or other furry pet and stroking it, or even having sex (but I think it needs to be for a minimum of 5 minutes - ha ha). All the above works though