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Hypnotherapy for Anxiety: Rewiring the Subconscious for Safety
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

Katie Potratz
7 min read


Why Anxiety Is a Protective Response (And Why Forcing Calm Doesn't Work)
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

Katie Potratz
6 min read


Why Understanding Your Anxiety Isn’t the Same as Healing It (and Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Anxiety)
This is for you if you’ve done the work, but anxiety still shows up. You’ve read the books. You’ve listened to the podcasts. You’ve gone to therapy. You know the coping strategies by heart. You understand your triggers. You can probably explain why you’re anxious. But none of this has actually stopped the anxiety from showing up. This is because anxiety isn’t something you can think your way out of. It’s a subconscious, emotional pattern, not a logical problem. Many people

Katie Potratz
6 min read
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