The Dance

I attended a dinner party recently where one of the guests had just read my book. Partway through my first glass of wine she asked me if I still suffered from depression and anxiety. It was refreshing for me to experience this topic as part of our dinner conversation, but still I paused, wanting to word my answer very carefully so as to allow no room for misinterpretation.

The truth is that I do get confronted by the symptoms of anxiety and depression, but I no longer surrender myself to the fear that they once instilled in me. I am able to stay afloat when presented with these emotional states because I have a vast repertoire of tools with which to deal with them. But the biggest reason I do not succumb to their power is that instead of fighting them, I have learned how to dance with them.