Anxiety management for life: how to reduce & manage anxiety

Do you want to reduce your current anxiety?

Do you want to manage anxiety more effectively going forward?

Do you want an insight into anxiety, its impact, symptoms and causes?

This course is a practical action oriented course designed to give you the tools, tips and strategies to reduce your current anxiety and to enable you to manage anxiety more effectively going forward, including over 50 anxiety management tips and strategies. 

This course aims to give you an insight into anxiety, its impact, symptoms and causes, as well as to give you practical steps to follow to reduce your current anxiety. The course will also give you a wealth of anxiety management tools, tips and strategies to help you to reduce your anxiety and more effectively manage your anxiety going forward.

As you go through the course you will be able to apply the learnings and develop your own personalised anxiety plan.

The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It includes lots of ideas, tips and strategies as to how to reduce and manage anxiety. The course takes a holistic view of anxiety management with anxiety management strategies for all areas of your life. It is not a theoretical or academic course on anxiety.

What is anxiety?

In this course we define anxiety as ‘Having regular or uncontrollable worries about many different things in your life, particularly about things that are about to happen or which you think may happen in the future’.

This is different to stress, which we cover in other courses, which we define as ‘The state that you experience when you perceive that you cannot adequately cope with the demands being made on you. You feel under pressure and don't have the physical and mental reserves to cope.’

What are the course aims?

The course aims to provide you with:

* An insight into anxiety, its impact, symptoms and causes.

* Practical steps to follow to reduce your current anxiety.

* A wealth of anxiety management tools, tips and strategies to help you to reduce your anxiety and more effectively manage your anxiety going forward.

* Your own personalised anxiety plan, that you will develop during the course. 

What is included in the course?

The course has the following sections:

* Introduction - including an introduction to the course and the tutor

* What is anxiety? - including a look at what is anxiety, including its symptoms and causes, and anxiety disorders

* How to reduce & manage anxiety - including a process to use to reduce and manage anxiety and an opportunity to review your own anxiety and start to understand it better.

* Anxiety management tips and strategies - including a wide range of practical tools, tips and strategies (over 50 in total) to help you to reduce your anxiety and more effectively manage your anxiety going forward. 

* Your anxiety management plan - throughout the course you will also have the chance to develop your own anxiety management plan, including looking at your own anxiety (including how it is manifesting, its causes and its impact on you) and anxiety management tips and strategies that you can use to reduce and manage your anxiety.

* Course summary - including a short summary of the course, a course quiz to self assess your learning and a checklist of all the tips and strategies covered in the course.

We have also included introductions and summaries throughout the course to help with learning.

The course is in short bite sized lectures and you can see the detailed course content in the course curriculum.

Practical activities - Developing your own personalised anxiety management plan and a course quiz

There are assignments, including worksheets to complete as you go through the course to develop your own personalised anxiety management plan. These include looking at your own anxiety (including how it is manifesting, its causes and its impact on you) and anxiety management tips and strategies that you can use to reduce and manage your anxiety. 

There is also a short multiple choice quiz in the Summary section of the course for you to use to self assess your learning from the course.

You will need to allow additional time in addition to the duration of the videos to complete the worksheets and quiz.

What will you learn?

By the end of the course, you will have a better understanding of anxiety in general and your own anxiety, have an action plan for reducing your anxiety levels and have anxiety management strategies in place to support you to manage anxiety positively going forward in your life and at work.

Important notes & more about the course

If you are already very knowledgeable about anxiety and anxiety management, this course may not be for you.  Please check the curriculum carefully before signing up for the course.

You can watch the lectures at your convenience on your computer, tablet or smart phone.   

You can choose to complete the whole course or just watch the lectures that are most relevant to you, whichever you prefer. You can watch each lecture in full or just the elements you want to watch and you can stop a lecture at any point if you want to study the content in more detail.

You can watch the lectures at the preassigned speed or you can choose to speed up or slow down the lectures to suit your own preference. 

We have included links in the resource section of the Introduction video to the Udemy help section which explains in detail how to access and watch the course, so you can find out more about watching the course and adjusting the course settings (such as course speed) to suit your individual preferences.

We have also included links in the resource section of the Course summary video to the Udemy help section which explains in detail how to download your course certificate after watching the whole course.

Good luck

Good luck with the course and I hope you find it invaluable.