Turn off Anxiety in Your Nervous System: 4 Ways to Turn on the Parasympathetic Response
Your brilliant, wise, beautiful body has a counterbalancing force to combat stress and anxiety. It’s called the parasympathetic response (that’s para as in parachute). And this is the body’s natural…
What’s the Difference Between Panic Attacks, Anxiety Attacks, and Panic Disorder? 1/3 Panic Attacks
Get the course: Journaling for Mental Health />What’s the difference between an anxiety attack, a panic attack, and panic disorder? This is important because people sometimes use these terms interchangeably,…
Locus of Control: Quick Coping Skill for Anxiety
Here’s a quick activity that you can do to cope with anxiety and restore a sense of safety and calm. I do it all the time with my clients in…
Quick-Start Guide to Anxiety Treatment
Learn a mind-body approach to treating anxiety in my FREE course Grounding Skills for Anxiety, Stress and PTSD: d An anxiety disorder diagnosis does not mean that you are defective,…
Willingness as an Antidote to Anxiety: A Weird Exercise That Helps You Get Better at Feeling
Learn how to get better at feeling. That means you increase your capacity to feel emotions, to experience both joyful and painful emotions without needing to escape, avoid, or act…
Why Anxiety and Depression Are Connected: Avoidance and Willingness With Painful Emotions
In this video, we’re going to talk about one way that depression and anxiety are linked – avoidance – and the antidote to avoidance – willingness. Depression and anxiety are…
Daily Habits to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
In this video, I teach 10 essential daily habits to manage stress and anxiety. But in this video, I’m also going to explain a way of thinking about stress that…
Anxious But You Don’t Know Why? General Anxiety Disorder: Rewiring the Anxious Brain Part 4
General anxiety disorder is a mental health condition where you feel anxious but you often don’t know why. In this follow-up to Rewiring the Anxious Brain, I discuss four more…