Hi, I’m a person with a fair amount of anxiety, and I’m wondering if anyone can help.

I have been creeping on my local UU FB Live Sunday service for a month or so. I did some research about UU in general, I checked out my local UU’s website. I think I want to join. Essentially I am struggling a little bit, because I am fairly progressive and I live in the red part of a blue state. My extended family do not share the same sentiments, and I am looking for some people who align with me, and I am looking to have some peace. I was raised Catholic, self described atheist, interested into the exploration of all of that. The universe & stuff. I’m aching for a deep conversation.

So I think I’m in the right place with UU. I want a sense of community, I need to shake the sense of hopelessness, I want to focus on what I CAN do to change the world. I also have kids, and it’s incredibly important to me that they have the freedom to form their own opinions and to respect the differences in others, and to just be good people!

So clearly I’ve been thinking about all this a lot. I think normally the next step would be to contact someone and go to the physical location and check it out. Obviously with covid the building is closed, they just use FB live and Zoom. For me, even Zoom is incredibly intimidating.

Because of my anxiety (I assume), I am hitting a roadblock here. I want to reach out, but I don’t know what to say, or how to go about it. I feel like a child, like what is wrong with me? I thought I would ask you all. What do I say? Do I send a random message through FB? Do I find a person to email? Why does it feel so awkward?! I know this is weird, but I just need help, how do I “human”?