The Anxiety Habit - An Introduction
About this ebook
This e-book is based on the popular work at https://theanxietyhabit.co.uk which combines personal recovery experience, years of research and observations from a growing number of sufferers that have recovered.
The guide provides a summary on how to recover from long term anxiety. One of the reasons we struggle to recover is because we’re already doing too much. We’re trying so hard to make ourselves feel better and we’ll leave no stone unturned to get there. The harder we try to banish our thoughts, feelings and symptoms, the worse we subsequently feel.
Learn how our reaction to stressful events, through conscious negative thinking, becomes a habit that traps us in the anxiety cycle. Gain an understanding how to break this cycle using STOP, the fundamentals of recovery and the One Hour Challenge.
Freedom from anxiety is closer than you think.
About the author
For many years I suffered from persistent anxiety, facing daily challenges and symptoms that seemed impossible to overcome. It took me a long time to understand my illness and become aware of how I was unintentionally making myself worse, creating an anxiety cycle. I experienced many symptoms, including depersonalisation, panic attacks, generalised anxiety disorder, and more.
I studied the subject of anxiety extensively and compulsively, constantly searching for a cure in the hopes of finally feeling better. Ironically, this relentless pursuit was making my anxiety worse and became a bad habit of constantly searching, questioning, and analysing. Through research into how our thoughts work, I developed a new habit to resist the urge of conscious negative thinking and scrambling for answers. I recognised that my bad habit of questioning triggered an anxiety cycle. Engaging in conscious negative thinking led to an adrenaline response, which made my symptoms flare up and would lead to more questioning again. By resisting the urge of conscious negative thinking, the anxiety cycle can be broken and the recovery process can begin.
In my website, book, and coaching, I describe how I developed a new habit that not only helped me recover from anxiety but also led to a happier, more fulfilling life. I gained confidence in handling everyday challenges naturally, without fearing a return of long-term anxiety. After my recovery, I started helping those close to me and soon realised that my personal experience, combined with years of research, could benefit a wider audience. As I started to coach more clients I studied for a qualification in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) which provides different strategies to help teach my work.
Today, I’m passionate about helping others by first guiding them to understand what anxiety is and what causes it. I then focus on raising awareness of how habits are formed through our conscious thought patterns. By understanding and making changes over time, we can create new habits that break the long term anxiety cycle.
