Overcome Anxiety: Psychology & Approaches OfCourse
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USD 93
  • Duration: Flexible

Course details

Includes 39 lectures and 3.5 hours of content.
  • Stop allowing anxiety to dictate your decisions and holding you back from opportunities.
  • Gain the skills which will enable you to cope effectively with any future adverse events in your life and reduce panic attacks.
  • Understand the bad habits and factors causing your anxiety and how to manage them.
  • This course is for anyone who experiences too much anxiety of any kind in their everyday life

This course teaches you everything you need to know about anxiety; the causes, the triggers and why you may experience it more acutely than others. You will begin to recognise and identify the underlying factors behind your anxiety and gain skills which will enable you to cope effectively with any future panic attacks or anxiety inducing effects.

Sue Breton is a Clinical Psychologist and author. She has worked in the field of adult mental health for over 40 years and has applied her own experiences with anxiety to the development of her own approach to overcoming this. She has published four books on anxiety-related topics - panic attacks, worry, OCD, and using mindfulness to overcome anxiety-related issues.

This course is suitable for anyone who has or is experiencing anxiety at any point in their life. It will provide you with the knowledge and strategies to transform your psyche and accept the responsibility for improving your own mental health. If you feel like anxiety is a crux, holding you back from opportunities and preventing you from living a completely fulfilling life then take this course and eradicate anxiety for good!

Who Am I To Teach You about Anxiety?
  • Say hi and tell your fellow students why you're taking this course
  • Share with your family and friends
  • Sue Breton, Clinical Psychologist
  • Sue Breton, (former) Panic Attack Sufferer and Obsessive
  • The Story of My Own Anxiety Issues
Introduction to Understanding About How to Overcome Anxiety
  • Overview of What’s in Section 2
  • Why We Need to Understand Why and How Anxiety Happens
  • The Medical Model Trap and Why Incorrect Expectations Can Get in the Way
  • What the Course Can and Can’t Do
  • What the Course Comprises - Who It’s for and Who It Isn’t
The First Step towards Overcoming Anxiety
  • Introduction to Section 3 - What Is Backup?
  • Creating Backup
  • Summary for Section 3
  • Homework for Section 3
How To Do the Course
  • How and What To Practise
  • Building Up Reserves
  • Homework Tasks Section 4
What You Really Need to Know about Anxiety
  • Introduction to Section 5 - The Mechanics
  • The Arousal System
  • The Survival Instinct
  • Fight or Flight
  • The Survival Instinct Warnings - 1
  • The Survival Instinct Warnings - 2
  • The Startle Warning
  • When Fight or Flight Is Inappropriate
  • Brains Link Things
  • More about Your Links
  • Learn about Your Links
  • Summary Section 5
  • Summary section 5
  • Homework section 5
  • Quiz
Now You Understand It - What You Have to Do to Get Rid of It.
  • Where Will Section 6 Take Us
  • Selective Fear
  • The Wrong Response
  • The Right Response for Your Body
  • The Right Response for Your Mind
  • Using Calm Scene
  • Beach scene
  • Calm Garden Scene
  • Calm Woodland Scene
  • How to use Calm Scene Tracks
  • Using Momentary Meditation
  • Homework Section 6
  • Summary Section 6
  • Momentary Meditation Instructions
  • Meditation on Breathing
  • Meditation on Sound
  • Meditation on Touch
  • Instructions on using the mindfulness meditation
The Feelgood Part and Mindfulness
  • Introduction to Section 7 : The Overall Feelgood Factor
  • Being in the Moment - The Power of Now
  • Acceptance. Going Back to the Beginning
  • Labels
  • Summary Section 7
Bonus Lecture
  • Supplementary Material
  • Fear of Flying Article
  • Fear of the Dentist Article
  • Lift/Elevator Phobia Article
  • Sample “Can’t Meditate Won’t Meditate”
  • Sample - Blackmailer in your head
Updated on 14 October, 2018

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