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Is it Anxiety or Addiction Talking?

2 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (YouTube) explains that when someone is struggling with addiction — or a loved one living with addiction is in your home — anxiety can drown out true intuition. Anxiety produces loud, repetitive fear-based thoughts that disrupt sleep and clarity; Hollingsworth advises not to ignore anxiety but to analyze it to distinguish anxious alarms from intuition.

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If you are struggling with an addiction or you have a loved one, especially if that loved one lives in your house, your intuition is going to be hard to hear because your anxiety alarms are going to be going off so loudly that you can't quite hear your real intuition. Anxiety screams at us. It yells at us. It's thoughts that go on and on, don't let us sleep, and bothers us to death. That's when we know we're in a fear based state, when we are in an anxious state. It's not that we should ignore that anxious state, but we should analyze it.