Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It

Staying in victim mode—numb, shut down, and “protected” from vulnerability—cuts you off from the very thing you need to heal from chronic worry: love and connection.

without awareness, the mind makes an image of the future directly from the past, in a kind of unspoken “Don’t let this happen again” pattern.

Chronic worry is a maladaptive coping strategy, not a disease.

Consciously bringing yourself to the present moment and affirming that you are safe

Alarm is a combination of misaligned energy of your fight-or-flight sympathetic nervous system, with an activating energy originating from unresolved emotional pain that has been repressed within your body.

in your child mind, where your deepest beliefs are, you unconsciously believe the worries are keeping you safe, and you are afraid to let them go.

Without the objective curiosity about our thoughts that conscious awareness brings, the mind unconsciously and automatically equates our thoughts (anxious or otherwise) with who we are.

Even though we may be safe in the moment, the ego needs you to be on the constant lookout for danger. Allowing you to feel safe is not in the ego’s best interest, even though it is in your best interest.

unfolds, the pain you feel is not coming from the anxious thoughts of your mind but from a sense of alarm stored in your body.

The ego is linked to a structure in the brain called the amygdala, as I said above is commonly referred to as the fear centre of the brain.