There's a part about how if you face your "terrible feelings" and try to make them worst you will find that you cannot. We shrink from feelings for fear of making them worse but by facing them we lose some of the fear and it may actually have a calming effect. So much of living with anxiety is the anticipation, the nerves are intimidating and feel over-powering. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) only recommends trying treatments based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

There are many types of meditation for anxiety that can help relieve some of your symptoms. Here's what research says, and how to meditate to calm… READ MORE The guidance you need is in this small book. The perseverance and courage you can, with help, find within yourself. The strength to recover is within you, once you are shown the way. I assure you of this.” – Dr Weekes. Claire B named her inner critic Frank and tells him to F**k off all the time, too - each to their own. In his book “Why We Sleep,” Dr. Matthew Walker, professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, says, “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.”Set aside a specific time to focus on your worries – so you can reassure yourself you haven't forgotten to think about them. Some people find it helps to set a timer. When practised with a therapist, CBT has been shown to be clinically effective in improving anxiety, low mood, stress and sleep problems, as well as many other mental and some physical health conditions. A chance find that I read with caution - you're vulnerable and you want sound and good advice. Dr Weekes earned trust by understanding and accurately describing what it's like, then offers her advice in a kind but no nonsense tone: face, accept, float, give it time. To help you regulate, try engaging your senses. For example, you can make some tea and sip it slowly. Name what you’re tasting. Hints of berry, maybe? Though anxiety is common, you can rise above it. Here are some uncommon self-help approaches to help you.

It’s time to close the door on stigmatizing self-help and anxiety and open the door toward taking care of ourselves unapologetically. Self Help for Your Nerves’ helped me through a really tough time in my life. I bought several other ‘self help’ books during this time (in an attempt to avoid the inevitable trip to the doctor), but all of them seemed insincere, synthetic and unhelpful. Dr Claire Weekes’ book became a light in an interminable darkness. It gave me the courage to seek professional help for my anxieties and stress - for which I shall be forever grateful to her: If you're finding things hard emotionally right now, you're not alone. We're here to give information and support. You have to respect that this woman was producing these findings in the 70s and 80s and it's mainly relevant to today. There are some references she makes to practices more common of her era but it's done in a way to give you comfort if that's the treatment you are getting... She ALWAYS reassures that you can succeed on her method alone.Anxiety takes up space in your head, and movement will help you get out of your head. Essentially, you’re taking the attention away from your mind and putting it into your body, which can help you reconnect and get grounded. Avoiding drinks containing caffeine, such as coffee, tea, fizzy drinks and energy drinks, may help reduce your anxiety levels. Healthy living Write down your worries and keep them in a particular place – for example, you could write them in a notebook, or on pieces of paper you put in an envelope or jar. Sometimes there are no obvious triggers for it and it's difficult to know what causes anxiety, which can be upsetting or stressful in itself. Needless to say, I'm glad I still held onto it. I felt like I was able to better understand how to cope with a lot of things that I never knew how best to cope with. There are so many ways to look after your mental health and well-being that I have always had the tendency to overthink it. In the past year, I had been working on a lot of things I know needed working on (i.e. overthinking). Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and for what it read as. Largely common sense and parts of it were pretty eye opening.

How anxiety affects us is very personal to us, and if you asked 100 people what it means to them, you'd probably get 100 different answers. If we have unhelpful thoughts and feelings, this can lead to unhelpful behaviour, which can turn into a vicious cycle of further negative thoughts and so on. It becomes easier to counter your anxiety when you know your anxiety or what is making you anxious. How you get to know it may be different from someone else, but there are options for everyone. When your sleep routine is sound, you’ll wake up with a stronger foundation to help you manage your stress throughout the day. The reason for my high rating is because I found this book to be completely different to any other self help book that I have read in the past. Often these books outline the same sort of processes so you keep being fed the same sort of information but this book seems to have a more relaxed approach to dealing with stress, anxiety and depression...and in some ways a more realistic approach. It teaches you the methods of 'floating' not 'facing', 'accepting' not 'fighting' and 'comfort' not 'conflict'.

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Everyone’s anxiety levels are different. Some people find more situations stressful and experience more challenges in life than others, and they get more anxious as a result. Claire W is also an Aussie! Yay. And there is a new bio coming out about her. She must have been a breath of fresh air to patients. Maybe you want to take a quiz to understand your anxiety better. At other times, it might help to step away from your anxiety to understand it (see the next tip). In this section you can find out about CBT, watch our short video guides and try online self-help techniques. These can help you deal with worries and unhelpful thoughts, work through problems in new ways, build resilience and boost your mental wellbeing.Sleep is critical to your mental well-being. No matter what self-help tools you practice during the day, you could still find yourself feeling anxious if your sleep schedule isn’t regulated. When I read At Last A Life, it totally changed my life with its unorthodox (or so I thought) approach to anxiety that actually worked. It didn’t contain the usual exhortations that I just needed to eat right, meditate and be mindful and then my anxiety would be ‘managed’. Instead it just had some very simple advice: stop trying to get better, let the suffering wash over you, stop fearing your own fear, and let your body heal itself. Another thing you can do is use essential oils. Spiritual leadership coach Antoinette Beauchamp swears by lavender oil. In your tense effort to control yourself you have been releasing more and more adrenalin and so further exciting your organs to produce the very sensations from which you have been trying to escape."