Nice to read your update. I'm so glad to read about the things you're doing to manage low-level anxiety. I'm becoming more aware of how this has affected my life too. Just being able to identify feeling anxious is a challenge for me, because it's become so habitual.
Thank you. I know there are some who think I take the Inner Child thing too far, but I am realizing that at the core of most of my onsets of anxiety, is a trigger/memory of a fear, a dread, a sense of being overwhelmed that sets off a reaction in the now of the little boy in me from the past (if that makes sense). I kind of tell him this is different, I'll handle it, I got his back. For me, it works. Hope all is well with you. Will catch up soon.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
