I want to ask you an important question. And that is: Why are you stuck? What is it about your experience with abnormal anxiety that's made it difficult to overcome? I know that for me it was the sense that anxiety symptoms would somehow hurt me, either physically or mentally. I had a hard time convincing myself that anxiety wasn't dangerous. But, in time, I learned how to defeat this pattern. So I wrote about it. My new eBook, The Big Idea, deals with this important problem. The problem I'm talking about is resistance. Resistance to
Archives for February 2012
My Appearance on the Happy Hour Radio Show
I recently had the privilege of appearing on the Happy Hour Radio Show. I joined Anxiety Gal and her co-host Holly (pictured left) to talk about my past anxiety problems, what I did to get better, and about my work at Anxiety Guru. At one point during the segment, Holly put me on the spot and asked me to explain abnormal anxiety in just a few minutes, and I'm glad she did. It gave me a chance to give a spontaneous and honest answer to a question that I've wrestled with for years. I usually don't have a chance to get introspective about
How I Got Anxiety to Leave Me Alone at Night
Two things ran through my mind when I used to get anxious panicked: I'm going to die and It's just anxiety. Especially at night. It's a dual consciousness that you've probably experienced too. That head game tends to happen over and over again. Even if you tell yourself, everyday, that you're not going to let anxiety do that to you. That's why I was surprised when I stopped doing it. But I'll be honest with you, I didn't do it consciously. Actually, it happened on accident. How could that be? Well. Every now and then I used to wake