Anxiety’s A B!tch: Recent Episodes
Dr. John Mayer
I’m going to break the rules here. The first five of these Podcasts get right into practical help. Only after that do I get around to all that long boring, but important stuff on what Anxiety is and does to your body. If you are suffering from anxiety-YOU DAMN WELL KNOW WHAT IT IS AND YOU GOT IT!! Let’s fix it first, then we can take the luxury of getting all techy.I created this series as a reaction to all the pop-psychology and pseudo-science advice on the Internet. Patients keep mentioning these posts, I keep rolling my eyes and after a while too much eye rolling gets fatiguing. I get grouchy when I’m tired.I am a noted and accomplished clinical psychologist, a scientist and a clinician. These podcasts cut through those weeds of bad advice and give you very useable, practical approaches to calm your ANXIETY. If you want coloring books and Hope Journals go somewhere else, but if you want to quickly calm your stress and anxiety, listen in.The techniques and approach here are solidly based on the best practices and research in mental health, decades of experience, and analysis of 6200 cases of success in coping with anxiety. You won’t get this level of expertise anywhere else. Each episode gives doable techniques to help you NOW!I hope you will find my podcasts to be easy listening as well as life changing. I must warn you I am candid and not afraid to step on the toes of those who advance bad advice and home spun techniques.Give a listen.
Spoiler Alert: This episode starts out with a Bonus Tip to calm your anxiety.
The five truths of facing anxiety: You have enough life experience (History), you are smart enough, have experienced this before in some way, have resources to tap into (including these podcasts) and you can undo anything.
One of the most frequent ways we experience anxiety is when we have upcoming Speeches/Presentations/Meetings/ New Situations/Job Interviews/Yearly work evaluations/Big Meetings/Test Anxiety/Meeting New People/Weddings/etc.
Fascinating itinerary of all the ways that anxiety can damage your body. I’m throwing in a Bonus Tip here also.
Finally let’s take a few minutes to understand what anxiety is and isn’t. The differences between anxiety and worry will be explained. Why now? Don’t you hate books and videos that spend countless pages and hours first before they get to the 2-3 practical tips you can use?
Spoiler Alert: This episode starts out with a Bonus Tip to calm your anxiety.
No one ever teaches us how to go to sleep—Sorry Mom and Dad! Mayer gives a detailed protocol for getting better sleep without drugs, all based on the latest science and with some tips not talked about anywhere else. Natch!
Spoiler Alert: This episode starts out with a Bonus Tip to calm your anxiety.
During this episode Mayer provides practical ways you can prevent anxiety with internal techniques. He discusses his most successful interventions such as Compartmentalization, Lowering your expectations, Moving your body (Exercise), Avoiding Triggers to Anxiety, Goal Setting, Don’t Do Stupid Stuff, and more.
Here Mayer shows how the environment that surrounds us can be a huge help toward calming anxiety. Many tips and techniques as usual. This is anxiety PREVENTION.
In this episode, Mayer gets right into helping with anxiety NOW! Specific ways to quiet your anxiety are detailed here.
In this first episode Dr. Mayer tells you who he is and explains his successful methods to calm anxiety. The concepts and techniques of: Surrender, Making the Unknown~Known, and Undoing or Fixing are explained.