Anxiety Resources
- Basic Brain Training to strengthen your natural capacity to become calm and grounded.
- A old (but still relevant) list of useful websites dealing with anxiety
- Health Journeys Belleruth Naparstek, LCSW, is a goddess in the field of guided imagery. She and her colleagues at Healthjourneys.com offer a comprehensive array of guided visualization and relaxation training exercises for a wide range of medical and psychological issues. The site has many free resources, including brief reviews of current research on the benefits of imagery and other complementary medicine approaches. Health Journeys' audio practices are so beneficial and well-regarded that a number of hospitals and health insurance companies offer HJ guided imagery to their patients. In fact, Kaiser Permanente provides a selection of free HJ guided imagery practices that anyone can access, including exercises to help with insomnia, anxiety/panic, pain, self-confidence, anger and stress. These audio recordings can be streamed or downloaded as mp3 files. Tip: download the practices you want to try to your phone/computer/player before you need them - it's a lot easier to use something regularly when you can get to it with just a few taps!
- Diaphragmatic breathing is a deceptively simple and easy to learn technique with the power to calm almost any anxious/panic-y brain - but, you must know how to do it effectively and keep on doing it! Happily, it's not necessary to interrupt your day to practice for 10 - 20 minutes at a time. Try this 1 minute diaphragmatic breathing practice from Dr. Margret Wehrenberg, an expert on anxiety and the brain, and author of a super-accessible book, The 10 Best Ever Anxiety Management Techniques and companion workbook, The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques Workbook. Done more-or-less consistently, this simple practice can lead to remarkable changes.
- Calm Clinic offers an extensive array of anxiety management tools, practices, ideas, tips and support for the anxiety sufferer. It's written and edited by two people who have recovered from previously debilitating anxiety; they know the topic from the inside.
- Canadian counselor Chris McLeod's SuceedSocially.com addresses social anxiety in a grounded and practical fashion. "Its focus is on helping people who feel behind in their communication skills, confidence, and friendships catch up in those areas."