Learning to accept what anxiety disorder is — and what it is not — opens up the pathway forward.
Learning why your body and mind are reacting this way eases fear and helps remove doubt.
Refiling what is happening as discomfort, not danger. This is where the mindset transforms through understanding and redefining.
This is where practice rewires the nervous system — learning how to re-engage in life, even imperfectly at first.
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.
Read Bryan's full story →Regular posts about the irregular days anxiety disorder can bring, and how our mindset helps us to move past them.
There was one thing I couldn't quite find in most of what I read, or in a lot of my own therapy: how to actually move through your worst moments while they are happening. So I wrote the book I wish I'd had, and right now I'm giving it away.
We get fixated on how it all began. But for most of us, the origin story has almost nothing to do with why the anxiety continued, or with how we recover.
Recovery asks us to give up the fight. It has never asked us to give up our judgment. Here is the difference between a problem that deserves your sharp, analytical mind and a feeling that just needs to be left alone, and why knowing which is which changes everything.
