About this deal
Although I'll talk about my patients' experiences with anxiety as well as my own, everything within these pages has been vetted, explored, and applied to my own life. It’s going to take me endless times to reread highlights or certain chapters to help get out of the “alarm grooves.
I also take an SSRI, completed over a dozen years of counseling, adopted a low-carb, high protein diet, and even became a personal trainer and nutrition coach because of the anti-depressant effects fitness and diet have on my emotional state. she made me promise to access EMDR and I had started my own path to recovery through Breathwork therapy, I also tried mushrooms and DMT and accessed an inner child wounding course. It presses on the idea that everything is perception and we can alter our perceptions through faith and gratitude.Kennedy offers not just a unique look at and approach to anxiety; he offers actionable steps to help right now. I am a mental health therapist with my own trauma history and I have read more books on anxiety and trauma than I could possibly count.
It took me about two and half weeks to read the book, along with reviews here and there, plus episodes of Kennedy's podcast. Download any episodes you want saved to your device so you can listen to them anytime (with or without wifi); otherwise, just hit play. For me, the takeaway is a complete paradigm shift: my anxiety is not something to get rid of, just the concern of my younger self(ves) to be attended to. As I said, there was value in his personal experiences - but if your anxieties manifest in different ways, his failure to use enough meaningful, detailed examples from people other than himself starts to make it hard to relate to.What makes this book different is its relentless focus on calming anxiety at its true source, which I will share with you in detail.
It is quite logical, not just focusing on the problem, gives possible solution, but I am not sure if it works yet.
To solve it, learn to recognize when it’s happening, accept those thoughts are irrational, practice grounding techniques (google it), breath work and yoga.