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Anxiety Advice From The Heart

For the past two weeks, I have been crafting a new anxiety advice program: Destroy Anxiety. It is positively oozing with lots of tips, tricks and techniques from my own life on how I have dealt crummy feelings in my own life...but, the program was a long work in progress and many times I tried to compress too much information into too few pages and each version inevitably ended up in the trash. In the creation stage of my anxiety advice program, I went overboard and compiled as much anxiety advice as I could. No tidbit of information was too small! However, the end result was all wrong. Sure, I had captured an an opinion on everything anxiety related, but my personal wisdom on the matter was buried. In my desire to provide a great product for my readers - and my fear of being sharing personal stories and being "exposed", I compiled lots of opinions on how to deal with anxiety. But, nothing that rang true of my own experience. In short, the program felt generic. For the second go-around, I limited myself to only speaking about my own experiences with anxiety. Strangely, that made all the difference.

I restricted myself to only discussing my own deeply personal experiences and discovered tremendous freedom in the process. At first, I thought it would be hard to limit my subject matter, but the opposite was true. Being authentic and giving advice based on my life was liberating.

I stopped worrying about people judging me. I stopped wondering if what I was doing was "good enough." Being authentic and truthful was energizing. I was excited to share my personal stories.

On a deep level that I couldn't quite articulate, I understood that sharing my own experiences removed me from the world of negative opinions and it shut down the possibility of being wrong.

Give it a try yourself.

Speak from your heart. When you offer your own life truths to another person, there is no room for being wrong. Like a candle in a dark room, truth always illuminates a way.

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After Years of Misery from Anxiety and Depression, I Gained My Life Back

Exhausted? Stressed-out? Overwhelmed?

Hi,

Courtney here, author of this site. When I developed anxiety and depression, I went to a psychologist, a psychiatrist and a physician, and to be truthful, in my experience, these people couldn't really help.Therapy sessions, yoga and getting more exercise lessened my anxiety symptoms, but did not stop them for good.

In fact, I later learned that because I was living in a constant state of low-level stress and anxiety, the chemicals in my brain had changed, making me more anxious and depressed. Clearly, merely managing my symptoms was not enough - in fact, following "the doctor's orders" made things worse....