If you struggle with chronic anxiety, it’s likely been a pattern you’ve noticed for most of your life. Certain life events may have made it worse, but if you think back, you might realize that anxious tendencies were always there to some degree. That’s because anxiety often begins in childhood, where you were trying to make sense of your experiences and learn how to stay safe in your environment. Over the years, you may have tried different therapies for anxiety — talk therap

Anxiety isn’t a random malfunction, even if your anxiety feels random. Anxiety is a highly intelligent survival response rooted in your brain and nervous system. Many people mistakenly think “calmness” is the solution to anxiety. They’ll say things like “just relax”, which of course, don’t help at all. When we understand that anxiety is your brain and body’s threat detection system sensing danger and trying to protect you, the solution becomes much clearer. It’s not calmness

Anxiety can be – at best – overwhelming and inconvenient, and, at wort, completely debilitating. It’s easy to label anxiety as the problem when it seems to cause us so much discomfort and pain. But one of the keys to healing anxiety is understanding what it really is. Anxiety is not a malfunction or something that’s trying to hurt you — anxiety is a protective response created by the subconscious and nervous system. I’ve been helping people heal from anxiety and a myriad of o