Anxiety is a lighthouse.

"A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways."

I have found this framing really helpful, as my existing relationship with anxiety up until recently has been that anxiety is something to work myself out of. Anxiety was a problem to solve. To diminish and reduce.

Instead, I am now trying to view anxiety as a lighthouse. I am letting it guide me towards lands that I am unfamiliar with. It's a signal to something that is blurry. I'm not always sure what the lands will have to offer, but at the very least, there is a beacon to travel towards. Questions to be answered, more of the map to be uncovered.

A feeling is a signal, and how we act based on that signal is what matters.