Only you are responsible for the experience of your life! A practical look at how your inner subjective reality influences your outer subjective reality and, thus, your life experience.
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The painful truth is… These are based in anxiety, using energy unwisely, people-pleasing, being too nice and having a repressed dominance.
Chronic Fatigue, ME & Fibromyalgia Read More »
Common sense says building resilience and immunity by exposure to life and gaining more energy from food and the sun, and learning to self-reassure and trust are key to recovery.
From Health Anxiety (Hypochondria) to Trusting Life. Read More »
People with this are rarely fragile by nature. Often intelligent, emotionally intense, caring, stubborn and creative. They dislike conflict and have suppressed anger. Their natural dominance or playfulness was frequently constrained earlier in life.
Health Anxiety, Hypochondria and Contamination OCD Read More »
A great video exploring traps that keep anxious people stuck, how ADHD-type wiring is often a repressed superpower and ways to quiet the mind so intuition and clearer decisions can emerge.
Anxiety Traps, ADHD as a Superpower, Trust & Intuition Read More »
The common trait that links all people with anxiety and depression is that they are all exhausted. Therefore, the common-sense remedy would seem to be more sleep!
Why Sleep is So Important for Your Mental Health Read More »
A phobia is an intense, persistent, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity that is typically out of proportion to the actual danger posed. Here is a list of them.
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I explore two topics that are essential for achieving emotional calmness and a quieter mind: your Belief Systems and your Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS is the part of your unconscious brain that filters information—both positive and negative—and sends it to your conscious mind – ignore reprogramming this at your peril! This is an
Programming Your Reticular Activating System (RAS) Read More »
I explore how fallible and trickable our senses are. Knowing this can be a game-changer for those with anxiety or OCD. This excerpt is from lecture 17 of The Calmness in Mind Process by John Glanvill.
Should we trust (or trick) our senses to be less anxious? Read More »
Chronic pain, fatigue and unexplained symptoms can be the mind’s diversion from unprocessed emotions & stuck trauma. Learn how TMS and psychosomatic loops seem to operate.
Psychosomatic Illness & Somatic Symptom Disorder (SDD) Read More »
A racing heart, tight chest, dizziness, and trembling are the body’s survival system firing at the wrong time. Learn what the symptoms actually mean — and how to stop fearing them.
Deeply Understanding the Symptoms of Anxiety/OCD Read More »
Wisdom from my 20 years as a therapist working with ADHD —Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (and my wife is ADHD, so I have first-hand experience).
ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder Read More »
Many people find that avoiding carbohydrates (sugars), processed foods, and seed oils significantly improves their anxiety, energy levels and mood. I follow a carnivore/ketogenic diet for about eighty per cent of the time and eat what I enjoy for the remaining twenty per cent.
Hyperglycaemia May Make Anxiety Worse – What Foods help? Read More »
Sleep problems are extremely common among people dealing with anxiety, OCD and depression. While rarely life-threatening in the short term, chronic poor sleep is exhausting, demoralising and self-reinforcing.
Sleep is SO Important in Anxiety Disorder Recovery Read More »
People living with anxiety, OCD or depression frequently take poorer care of the basics — sleep, movement, food, daylight and genuine rest which may lead to poor mitochondrial health. This is rarely laziness.
Mitochondrial Health for More Energy to Rise Above Anxiety Read More »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvujDfpytMg&t=190s “Practical approaches to depression and bipolar depression beyond medication. Learn why energy management, slower recharging and changing mental habits can reduce mood swings and build lasting stability.” Depression, Bipolar Depression and What We Can Actively Do for Ourselves Depression is often treated as a fixed chemical or genetic fate. Medication has its place for
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Practical insights on bipolar depression for intelligent, creative people. How suppressed extroversion and creativity, emotional exhaustion and a flat “emotional battery” drive the cycle — and what you can actively do to influence it. Bipolar Depression – What You Can Do to Help Yourself Beyond Medication? In this short free video I focus particularly on
Can we reverse depression by doing the opposite of what caused it initially? Read More »
Health anxiety turns ordinary bodily sensations into emergencies and keeps life organised around the fear of illness. Learn how this pattern forms and what actually helps reduce its grip. Health Anxiety OCD – When the Body Becomes the Battlefield Health anxiety is one of the more exhausting forms of OCD. The person becomes trapped in
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Epigenetics shows that genes respond to the environment, stress and repeated patterns of thought — they are not a fixed destiny. Learn how the “chemical soup” of daily life influences gene expression. Epigenetics – How Environment and Thought Influence Gene Expression (This piece is drawn from Video 7 of the Calmness in Mind course.) For
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Depression is influenced by more than genes and brain chemistry. Learn how thoughts, stress and daily patterns shape the body’s internal environment — and what that means for change. Understanding Depression Differently (This piece is drawn from Video 7 of the Calmness in Mind course.) Depression is usually explained through brain chemistry, genetics or difficult
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In this 28-minute video, we discuss the many strategies that our unconscious brain uses to trick (and self-sabotage) us into retreating from life through fear, worry, doubt and exhaustion with the condition we call anxiety. The Different Faces of Anxiety (This piece is drawn from Video 5 of the Calmness in Mind course.) After prolonged
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Anxiety rarely appears from nowhere. Learn how a six-month period of stress and depletion often precedes it — and why the trigger is not always the real cause. The Six-Month Run-Up to Anxiety (This piece is drawn from Video 4 of the Calmness in Mind course.) Anxiety, OCD and depression are rarely random. For most
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Your body responds to thoughts as if they were real. Learn how mental patterns drive emotions, drain energy and keep anxiety alive — and why changing your story changes the body. Thoughts, Emotions and Exhaustion (This piece is drawn from Video 3 of the Calmness in Mind Process Course.) We are emotional creatures who learned
How our body thinks our (unrequested) anxious thoughts are true Read More »
I have been working with anxiety for over two decades, and I think I know a lot about what it is – but more importantly, what you can do to escape it! You could read all the information below – or save time by starting my course, where my videos show you what is happening
The symptoms of anxiety are just normal (or exhausted) natural bodily responses that occur at the wrong time, at the wrong intensity and for the wrong duration. Stop seeing them as proof that you can or can’t do something! They are scary, but they won’t actually hurt you. Put simply All emotions and symptoms of anxiety
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Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is the name given to any form of anxiety, severe worry or panic – where the individual can’t specifically say what is causing their overwhelming emotions or fear-based responses. What is GAD? GAD is one of the common forms of anxiety and often affects people who are quite clever, logical and
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