Heels Down, Kick On

“Anxiety is the worst possible use of a good imagination.” ~ Deepak Chopra When I’m not writing, I’m teaching. Not teaching riding, by the way - but teaching A level English. As part of a professional development day recently, we received training on mental health issues - specifically, on anxiety – and I found it so useful, that I’m sharing it with you now. The number of young people passing through our classrooms who experience anxiety on a whole spectrum of levels; from mild forms to debilitating panic attacks – even an inability to leave the house some days - is definitely on the increase. I say ‘definitely’ - whether it just seems this way because more people are talking about it now, or it’s a genuine societal epidemic, I’m not qualified to say. But, I would imagine that the way we ‘consume’ life nowadays, through a social media lens, cannot be helping. Not many people post the rubbish stuff, do they? And those who do sometimes find themselves accused of attention-seeking,