Hi i’m Robyn this project is my passion and anxiety is something I’ve dealt and suffered with pretty much my whole life. I’ve had many ups and downs within my journey and am still trying to figure my own feelings out everyday. I always spoke very openly about my Anxieties to my friends and family but I haven’t always been understood. There’s been times in my life where I didn’t want to be here anymore and I didn’t feel like I could feel better ever again, my first ever experience of this was when my mum saw I wasn’t being myself and told me to go talk to my doctor, I remember sitting in front of my GP just sobbing and telling her I didn’t know what to to be alive but I just wanted to feel better again. She referred me to counselling and that’s where I began to understand more about myself and what I was really feeling. I was angry, upset, insecure and anxious AF! My councillor helped me so much and so did all the others after that but I’ve had to do a lot of the work myself to get to where i am now. This is why I want to help others because everytime i told someone how i felt and they said “me too” i felt less alone and more capable to keep pushing. i really believe if 12 year old me new an array of kind people telling me that they felt the same and that they were there to help me laugh or let me cry I’m sure I would have never felt so alone within my mind.

Girls Against Anxiety has been my ultimate lifesaver and i’m proud of the step i took to start it and that i can be there for other young people who have felt as low or lower as i did. With the community i have built, i think it will be hard to say “i feel lonely” again.