Skip to content
Welcome to LiveBySurprise.com
Live By Surprise
Primary Navigation Menu
Menu
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Featured Posts
    • Divorced Moms
    • Huff Post
    • Mock Mom
    • Sammiches and Psych Meds
    • ScaryMommy
    • The Good Men Project
    • The Mid
    • YourTango
  • Inspiration
    • Book Reviews
    • Guest Posts
    • Haiku
    • Microstories
    • Short Fiction
  • Life
    • Marriage
    • Mental Health
    • Parenting
    • The Grandmother Diaries
    • Travel
  • Divorce
    • CoParenting

anxiety

Childhood Anxiety - Don't Pass It On

Childhood Anxiety: Don’t Pass It On

2015-11-07
By: Live by Surprise
On: November 7, 2015
In: Life, Mental Health
With: 2 Comments

What was your biggest fear as a child?  Do you still have it today?  If it went away, when did your feelings change? Today I’m taking my daughter to do the thing that caused my initial fear to go beyond a “little bit” of anxiety into a full-blown reaction.  I’veContinue Reading

Building Strong Children 1

Building Strong Children

2015-07-13
By: Live by Surprise
On: July 13, 2015
In: Divorce, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Parenting
With: 1 Comment

I love those little revelations that come with spending time with family. I’m just back from a week’s holiday in Canada – my mother, her dog, and my niece joined us. My mom reminded me of a number of things that happened when I was a child. And one littleContinue Reading

The Slippery Slope

The Slippery Slope

2015-06-29
By: Live by Surprise
On: June 29, 2015
In: Car Accident, Mental Health
With: 0 Comments

We finally got the car back after five-and-a-half weeks – a week ago.  I think I’d been handling it pretty well up to that point – I was driving again, not having too much as far as driving anxiety goes. Hubs was very well meaning when he brought me inContinue Reading

#AAF with This Momma’s Ramblings

2015-06-19
By: Live by Surprise
On: June 19, 2015
In: Ask Away Friday, Other
With: 0 Comments

I have to admit to you guys…I’ve been really busy at work and my blogging is suffering.  I did just write a fantastic post, that I’m really hoping one of the bigger sites will pick up – but that will take a few weeks.  I didn’t even have a glimmerContinue Reading

Are you Enjoying the Sun or Waiting for the Clouds?

2015-04-23
By: Live by Surprise
On: April 23, 2015
In: Car Accident, Inspiration, Mental Health
With: 0 Comments

For the most part, I strive to remain positive about everything. I acknowledge that my relationship with my ex is a mess – but I try to make it better by creating boundaries and acting in a respectable way. I have outstanding physical and mental issues as a result ofContinue Reading

Moving on After a Car Accident – Dealing with Driving Anxiety

2015-04-10
By: Live by Surprise
On: April 10, 2015
In: Car Accident, Mental Health
With: 20 Comments

My driving anxiety sometimes presents itself in the most annoying of ways. I’ve developed such strong coping mechanisms that sometimes I’m not even aware that I’m using them until someone points it out. Turns out I’ve been dealing with anxiety issues my whole life without even knowing it. When IContinue Reading

Avoiding a Diagnosis: Providing the Tools to Combat Mental Illness 1

Avoiding a Diagnosis: Providing the Tools to Combat Mental Illness

2014-06-06
By: Live by Surprise
On: June 6, 2014
In: Mental Health
With: 0 Comments

So this was the first paragraph of an e-mail from the Goblin King a couple of days ago: I’m not sure if me dealing with peoples infidelity is a cause or concern of a so called anxiety disorder? But this is not a concern of mine now. I could seeContinue Reading

Lola's books

Doctor Who: The Forgotten
Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation2, Volume 2
Doctor Who Classics, Vol. 1
Doctor Who: The Eyeless
Chronic Profit: Building Your Small Business While Managing Persistent Pain
Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion
The Other Emily
Tracing Your Ancestors in Lunatic Asylums: A Guide for Family Historians
Memories of Tomorrow
The Mercy of Snakes
Red Rain
The Praying Mantis Bride
Photographing the Dead
In the Heart of the Fire
The Painted Girls
The Other Typist
The Woman Who Stole My Life
Great Shape Hunt, The
Zoe's First Book of Seasons
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey Issue #0


Lola Marguerita's favorite books »

Copyright LivebySurprise © 2025

Live By Surprise is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}