theedgerockgymfl // Milestones // Despite having gone to the gym several times a week for the past year, going in today to try things brand new to me caused me a crippling amount of anxiety and I somewhat panic froze for a solid ten minutes. This happens to me when I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and I’m terrified to ask for help for irrational reasons. This lasted until a new friend, tinaawinn happened to notice me and ask me how I was doing. Shortly after that, nazwerl joined our conversation and offered me his free time followed by sonimargarita arriving to also learn new things and then ending in another new friend, Chris, offering to be my first belay partner. These people literally unfroze me with their kindness and extension of knowledge. This all resulted in my first successful experience belaying with a partner and that partner encouraged me to try a route I was completely convinced I could not yet do, but with his supportive guidance, completed [slowly] on the first a...