Marie Rodriguez

What makes you nervous? I get nervous sometimes. Nervousness is connected to anxiety. It is something that is felt in the body. What triggers it? Anxiety is related to fear, so there may be be fear-based triggers- fear of stigma, fear of embarrassment, fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of fill-in-the-blank. I’m trying to remember the last time I was nervous. I remember that feeling of nervousness when a crush walks into the room. Why do we get nervous around a crush? Do we feel...

Today I journaled as prompted through the book I am slowly going through, The Book of Alchemy , by Souleika Jaouad. I was to journal...

First lines from “How Do I Love You?” by Marion Dane Bauer “How do I love you? Let me count the ways.  I love you as the sun loves the...