ADAA member Jennifer Shannon, LMFT, shares her experience of the impact of a wildfire on her life and her hometown of Santa Rosa in 2017.
"In my work I teach my clients to welcome anxiety and other negative emotions, that they are natural expressions of the limbic brain that is devoted to our safety and survival, what I like to call the monkey mind. Now, here was the sorrow of loss, square in my path," Jennifer says.
"As a therapist and author who specializes in stress and anxiety, and has lost my home in the Santa Rosa fire, I am writing this blog to remind myself of the powerful tools I use in my practice with my clients. If It helps others to deal with their own challenges, nothing would please me more."
Read Jennifer's experience here: adaa.org/learn-from-us/from...
Loneliness and deaths 
Can't stand being by myself
Who outside of this community, really gives a damn?
Overwhelmed with negativity 
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction - I am miserable 