Confidence Despite Anxiety

Spent the day with my nieces, almost two and almost four.  They live in Denver and are staying with their grandma and me for a week (brilliant). 

We drove to Eastrop park, which was nice.  I was remembering the last time we took them there, last summer, when I was bothered by my fast heartbeat which I used to get from time to time, a product of having panic attacks for a few years back in the day I think.  It is superb to remember how much better my health is now. 

My nieces being born and stepping up to the challenge of looking after them is something that has always made me feel very normal,  and it has been instrumental to my improving mental health. 

I am doing much better now than I was almost four years ago.  It has been good for me to look after them, they lived close by for over three years, it took my mind off of my own mental health problems a bit, and taught me some of how to be a confident and responsible adult.