No More Panic Attacks in the Supermarket: Panic Away Success Story
No More Panic Attacks in the Supermarket: Panic Away Success Story
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“I am waking up happy to live another day” -Panic Away Success Story
One of our Panic Away members has shared his success story with us. Blake was suffering from OCD, hypochondria, anxiety and panic attacks and it affected his happiness, relationships and enjoyment of life. Through the Panic Away program he is now enjoying his anxiety-free life! Blake’s OCD is almost gone after only two weeks and his general anxiety levels have completely reduced! Continue reading if you would like to know more about this fantastic success story: Hello Barry. I wanted to give you a huge thank you, and share my success story with you! My story began two years ago
Letting go of sensations that scare you
Most people with anxiety have a bodily sensations or two that unnerves them. In my experience the most common one by far is related to the heart and the fear that it will beat too fast triggering a heart attack. It’s perfectly understandable to have this fear. During a panic attack for example, your heart can pound like an African drum up into your throat and down into your stomach. That kind of beating is fine in the gym or watching a scary movie but pretty unnerving if you are just doing the shopping. People imagine all kinds of scenarios
You don’t have to love your anxiety. You just have to permit it.
We lead complicated lives so we expect solutions to our problems to be complicated too. You can spend thousands of dollars on elaborate therapies to end anxiety and still get nowhere. Then years later you stumble across something that just seems to be too ‘simplistic’, yet it gets real results. That’s what I see all the time when I am teaching people to end panic attacks and general anxiety. Our mind tricks us into believing that we have to spend a lot of money to get great help and that if the answer is complex it must be better than
Do you blame yourself for having anxiety?
If you have had an anxiety problem for any length of time, I bet you are very hard on yourself. You might beat yourself up for feeling the way you do. For missed opportunities that came your way or just feeling your life has been on hold. Being hard on yourself goes hand and hand with anxiety. But it does not serve you, it only prolongs anxiety and stress. It’s time to forgive yourself. Forgiveness reduces internal psychic tension and that in turn helps heal anxiety at a deeper level. This is a really short but powerful exercise for anyone
Unmasking the shame of anxiety
I got a call from a woman the other day who wanted to talk about her panic attacks and general anxiety. She is in her early thirties and lives with her husband and kids in a small town. She told me how anxiety and panic attacks were destroying her quality of life and everyday was turning into a pitch battle. She used to travel all around the world for work, but today she finds it hard to step out the front door for fear of having a panic attack. She has two small kids and they have needs to be
Healing anxiety through true acceptance
When we try to force anxiety away, we always fail. Why is that? Have you ever been in the sea and tried to push a beach ball down under the water. What happened? The harder you pushed it down, the more forceful it bounced back up, right. The same applies when we mentally try to push feelings of anxiety away. Those feelings bounce back harder. I teach people that they have a choice. They can either fight and resist anxiety or they can move into true acceptance of it and allow it to be present. When you move into a
The world’s most powerful 60 second habit
I am going to be very bold and say that I have here the most powerful habit you should start doing in 2013. It cost nothing except 60 seconds of your time each morning and I want you to start doing it daily with me starting January 1st 2013. The world’s most powerful 60 second habit! Get a small notebook and within 30 minutes of waking each morning, write down just one thing you are grateful for. Just one thing and it should not take longer than 60 seconds to write it. Done. That’s all you have to do. This
Trigger Flow to end anxiety
Healing anxiety is really about moving from a very stuck state, (the vicious cycle of anxiety) back into a state of flow. When you are in your natural state of flow, you feel much more like your old self again. You feel happy for no particular reason and are living very much in the present moment. Children playing are the best examples of this natural flow. I want to share an exercise on how you can move into this state of flow. Trigger a State of Flow 1. Begin my placing one hand on your stomach and one on your
Men and Anxiety
I’ve got a really great interview for all the men out there. (the women too but especially the men!) For most men it’s really hard to admit that you suffer from an anxiety problem. In my own case, when I was dealing with anxiety, I kept it like a dirty secret that no one should know about. I felt I had to battle through it all on my own (not recommended). It is really not easy for men to open up about this problem because men place so much importance on being perceived as strong and not showing any weakness
Panic attacks getting your hair cut
Anxiety at the hairdressers is such a common worry for people. It happens because people feel trapped having to sit in the chair while their hair is being done. No easy escape without having to make an awkward excuse right? Stacy Fiorile writes a guest post on this topic for Panic Away below. ______________________________________________ Just sitting. That is all. That is all you have to do. Is sit. And get your hair cut. You have been doing this since before you can remember. Only you know why, your hair has grown all funky. Maybe your grey is showing more and
Dr. Reid Wilson on Panic Attacks and General Anxiety
“Your resistance…your commitment to fight or avoid your discomfort actually causes your continued problem with panic.” Dr. Reid Wilson Dr. WILSON is a licensed psychologist who directs the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is author of Don’t Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks and co-author of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions. I wanted to interview Dr. Wilson immediately after reading his book Don’t Panic. He truly understands that to eliminate panic disorder,
