New book — out now

The Anxiety
Recovery Mindset

A time-tested approach to recovery from anxiety disorder when hacks and quick fixes fail. Honest, practical, and rooted in lived experience.

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Inside the book

What you'll learn — and unlearn

01

Define and believe

Learning to accept what anxiety disorder is — and what it is not — opens up the pathway forward.

02

The mechanics

Learning why your body and mind are reacting this way eases fear and helps remove doubt.

03

The big shift

Refiling what is happening as discomfort, not danger. This is where the mindset transforms through understanding and redefining.

04

Moving forward

This is where practice rewires the nervous system — learning how to re-engage in life, even imperfectly at first.

No matter how fearful you feel right now, you can reclaim your life — and I hope this book can be the catalyst for your own recovery story.
From the introduction
Bryan Mareau never intended to be an author.
The author

Bryan Mareau never intended to be an author.

But life took him down a challenging path, and what came out of it was a decade of studying how some people overcome anxiety disorders — and why others struggle. He's not a therapist or a clinician. He's someone who lived through it, did the work, and learned from the regular people who came before him.

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Writing

Notes from the work

Regular posts about the irregular days anxiety disorder can bring, and how our mindset helps us to move past them.

The Process

Anxiety Recovery. Are You Really Ready?

One person reads that question as an invitation. Another reads it as a warning. How you take it says a lot about where you really are. A look at the yeah, but phase, and the honest question that can quietly move you forward.

The Process

Intervene or Allow? Is Modern Medicine Learning from Classic Anxiety Treatment Protocols?

The science behind injury treatment is changing, and while it might be a stretch to say the two are directly correlated, the concepts we lean on in anxiety recovery are showing up more and more in how we treat everyday injuries, aches, and pains.

Q&A

Anxiety in the News. Are They Just Trying to Scare You?

Not all anxiety news helps you. Some of it is built to scare you into clicking. Here is how to filter the coverage and protect the mindset you have worked to build.

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