Is it all plain sailing?

When you get this blog I will be on the Princess Sky Cruise Ship on my holidays with my family.

We absolutely love cruising, the rumours of it only being for old people, is not true (you are only as old as you feel anyway!). We find it a very easy and relaxing holiday for the whole family.

Anyway, I am not selling cruise holidays so I will move on to the reason for this blog. 

We have been going on these cruise holidays for over ten years now, and every time I get on one I remember back to when we first started cruising: I was severely anxious.

I vividly remember the minute the ship would sail away, and the people on the ship would clap and applaud all excited for their holidays starting.  I was sat there with a smile on my face for the family, but internally I instantly felt trapped!

My anxious thinking would ramp up the second we left the shore.

How did the sailing away from the shore have the ability to make me feel anxious?
Why wasn’t everyone else anxious around me as we were all sailing away?

Well it was nothing to do with anything external to me, it was my internal story and my internal dialogue about what sailing away meant!

It was only what it meant to me by the way I had internalised it. (Remember last weeks blog on The Stories We Tell Ourselves?)