Anxiety Life Coaching

Are Fear and Worry Ruling Your Life?

Do feelings of fear come over you for no obvious reason at all? Maybe there are everyday activities that make you overly nervous. Maybe you can't think straight in situations that call for you to be alert or in charge, or at least articulate. Do you have trouble sleeping because many unpleasant thoughts come streaming into your mind at night? Maybe you are using more alcohol or other substances to calm your anxiety. Perhaps you have experienced moments in which your heart pounds, or your breath gets heavier or lighter, and panic takes over, like an “attack.” Do you wish these relentless feelings of panic would leave so you could be “normal” again, maybe for the first time in a long time? If you have answered yes to some of these questions, you could benefit from anxiety life coaching.

Anxiety can be frightening, overwhelming and isolating. Ever-present worry may be effecting your personal and business relationships, or you may fear that it could in the future. Maybe you have so many fears that they all feel like a blur, and many of them cycle through your mind in an endless loop. You might have spent a great deal of time, money and energy trying to manage these symptoms on your own.  Maybe you feel lost and out of control.

Many People Struggle With Anxiety

Anxiety is an epidemic in today's world. If you feel on edge and unable to find peace, you are not alone. Anxiety can have many causes. Maybe you have experienced a crisis in your life, a long time ago or recently. For example, many people feel increased anxiety after a big move, a career change, the loss of a loved one or the end of a relationship.

It could be that you are going through an especially challenging period in which you feel unsupported emotionally, physically or mentally. Perhaps you experienced a trauma in birth. Maybe you are sensitive to all the media available nowadays that expresses so much pessimism and it makes you nervous.  Perhaps you have a health problem, and you are worried about managing your medical bills and your physical well-being. You might feel trapped in a bad relationship, or a difficult work environment. Perhaps you have no explanation for the feeling of constant overwhelm. All of these situations are completely normal. Regardless of the ways in which your anxiety is manifesting itself, there is a way to find lasting relief.

Anxiety Treatment Can Help You Find Clarity and Calm

Anxiety life coaching can help you develop techniques to help you cope when you find yourself alone with this feeling of panic. Anxiety life coaching can be very effective when it uses the three levels of healing: cognitive, emotive and somatic. Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy (SE.), done with an experienced therapist, can help you find a calmer place in which you have the capacity to face the anxiety and reach clarity. Your anxiety can be transformed into positive action with the help of this body-oriented psychotherapy. Without the Somatic component to therapy, it is not possible to reach the nervous system, which is where the trouble with anxiety lies.

Somatic therapy aids the nervous system to regulate itself again, so there is not long-lasting arousal of the nervous system. Instead the body can come back to rest after a challenging situation, rather than stay in a perpetual state of hyper-vigilance.

The cognitive component of anxiety treatment will address your thinking process. I can help you identify your thoughts and discard that which is not true, or is useless for your well-being. As we work to address your emotions, we will allow your feelings to arise in a safe environment. I can help you realize that your feelings are just energy and it is okay to experience them without letting them define you.  Further, these feelings are messengers, telling us something needs to change. Within the feelings themselves lies the wisdom to change the difficult feeling to positive action.

Through anxiety life coaching, you can begin a life that is no longer run by fear. Instead, you can achieve calm and balance in your body, mind and emotion. One of my clients had such severe anxiety she could not talk to people and spent time mostly alone, though she was desperately lonely. She began to drink to fill the empty space inside and calm her fears. She considered quitting her job, but knew how difficult it might be to get another job, so she stayed. She then asked for a cubicle on the top floor in a corner so people would leave her alone, though it was cold upstairs. She was scared to even ask for directions to the wash room. At night, she would wake up every two hours, and not go back to sleep easily. Her mind was constantly running through “what if,” always dreading the worst case scenario.

She began to have unpredictable “panic attacks” in which she would truly feel she was in danger of being destroyed.

After working with me, her nervous system came back into balance and she was able to sleep most nights a full 7-8 hours. She began to experiment with going to a painting class to meet people in a safe environment, and found that the painting itself was a help for her to get her feelings out and fully see them objectively. Through assertiveness training, she developed the right language to get her needs met at work.  By taking baby steps from the first session onwards, she let go of more and more anxious thinking. The panic attacks subsided about 85% within 12 weeks. Six months later she has continued to increase her feelings of well-being, and does not feel the need to drink alone anymore.

But Won't Anxiety Life Coaching Be Expensive and Time-Consuming?

Not necessarily. There are a lot of techniques you can do on your own that can make significant changes. Sometimes, just repeating one or two techniques can make coping with anxiety easier.

In addition, I encourage you to consider the toll that this panic disorder is taking in your life, the time, energy and misery you are experiencing. Again, how precious life is, and the possibility of ending this unbearable cycle, makes it worth trying. In over 25 years of practicing psychotherapy, I have seen evidence over and over again of anxiety treatment diminishing symptoms and people returning to balanced, healthy lives.

So, if you are sick of feeling nervous and anxious, I invite you to contact me by phone or email.

I will send you a quick test to see if you have general anxiety disorder (GAD) or if you have any other type of anxiety issue. You are welcome to email or call me, with or without the test, for a free consultation to begin your anxiety life coaching journey.