Welcome to week 2! A short introductory video for you to welcome you back.

IMPORTANT: All downloadable materials for week two are below this video ready for you.

In this video we’ll go over what we learnt in week 1, and what we’re covering in week 2 this week (hint! it’s a theory week!).

We’re diving straight into ‘What is anxiety?' In this video, we'll learn some medical descriptions of anxiety and some none medical ones too.

In this video, we’ll be diving a lot deeper into the brain, how it works, how the stress response is triggered and all about the Autonomic Nervous System. When we understand how our bodies work and that they are trying to protect us with our anxiety, we can begin to understand and show more compassion & forgiveness to ourselves.

Learn here about the myriad of anxiety symptoms and start recognising how your body demonstrates anxiety in the symptoms you feel.

Time for a quick relief exercise. Follow along with me and we’ll do it together. This one is a really nice breathing exercise to calm down our nervous system response and bring us back to calm.

In this video, we’ll ask some question about why women are diagnosed more frequently with anxiety. Let’s discuss some of the potential factors in the hope to understand ourselves better.

Why is postnatal and motherhood anxiety so common? Why do we suffer at what's meant to be one of the happiest times of our life? This video explains why, and goes a step further to helping ourselves overcome it.

Another quick relief exercise which is called ‘conscious breathing’. Give this one a go and let me know how you find it.

This video goes into the topic of statistics around anxiety and the impact of society with our modern-day living, and how perhaps the ‘digital era’ is making far more people anxious because of the sheer volume of information we’re subjected to on a daily basis.

We touch very briefly on mental health history in this video to understand more of its origins.

Let’s talk about certainty and anxiety in this video.

The big ‘aha’ moment is a big ‘truth buster’ about anxiety.

Welcome to exercise one! Please make sure to grab your paperwork in the resources/materials section and give yourself the time to answer these questions.

Here is exercise two of our second week of exercises. Remember to take the time you need to answer the question as honestly as you can for yourself.

Welcome to your third exercise of this week. You’ll find the paperwork for answering this question in the materials section of the course.

In this video, you’ll be asked the fourth question this week, and remember there’s no rush with the questions. Allow yourself time, space and being on your own to answer these questions.

This is the final question of week 2. Take the time to answer them as truthfully as possible.

This is the last quick relief exercise of week two (but don’t worry, week 3 is full of them!) Keep practising!

In this video, you’ll be asked to complete a further exercise this week. This is your week 2 ‘homework’ which will really change how you see your anxiety.

Welcome to week 3! This week is entirely made up of practical quick relief anxiety exercises. No theory at all this week! Homework is simply to practise whichever of these exercises you find help you the most.

Exercise 1 is called Abdominal Breathing and by doing so you inhale deeper and activate the diaphragm. A very therapeutic exercise but it does take practise so don’t rush this one!

Exercise 2 this week is a head and neck relaxation technique with a visualisation too. I will take you through this exercise word for word. Prepare to relax!

Welcome to exercise 3 which is called Calm Breathing. Simply follow my lead and we’ll go through it together.

Exercise 4 is called ‘Equal Breathing’ and again, do follow along with me and we’ll go through it together several times.

Exercise 5 is called the 4,7,8 technique and this is one of the famous ones known to reduce stress and anxiety. Takes practise to get the hang of but very good to use in the grip of anxiety.

Exercise 6 is the easiest of them all in theory, but perhaps not in practise!? It’s called “stop and breathe” and you simply do that!

Exercise 7 is a tapping session, also known as EFT (emotional freedom therapy) Follow along with me and see how you get on.

Exercise 8 is called ‘Voo Breathing’ and I learnt this from one of my favourite authors called Gabrielle Bernstein. Takes a fair bit of practise this one but see what you think.

We’re on exercise 9 now and this one’s called ‘Balanced Nose Breathing’. It’s completely practised by breathing in and out of the nose. Follow along with me as I take you through it.

Last exercise of week 3! Exercise 10 is called ‘The Body Scan’ and again it’s a visualisation/meditation technique which I’ll take you through step by step. Don’t forget, week 3 homework is to practise a couple of these exercises (whichever work best for you) and also to complete the new ‘deep dive’ questions.

See the Resources Section for the downloads this week (Lecture 35).

Welcome to week 4!

Welcome back. Throughout week 4 we’ll be discussing long term solutions for reducing our anxiety levels.

Don’t be worried! There’s nothing you need to do apart from check in with yourself and your reality more. Step away from the wandering mind and start to take the control back over yourself.

Here we discuss why it’s so hard to change, in every area of life. We need to be aware of this fact in order to actually create the change we want to see, which in our case is to reduce anxiety.

Becoming ‘friendly’ with our own anxiety? YES! Listen in and see how I explain it.

Here we discuss emotions, what they are, what are the 6 ‘universal ones’ and what do we do with our emotions in relation to our anxiety combat.

We’re continuing with emotions here but paying particular attention to shame and fear. The reason for this is these two emotions feature heavily in most of our lives and simply hold us back rather than allowing us to move towards where we want to be.

This is the start of week 4 ‘homework’ which are your deep dive questions. Take your time with these as always and really think about them before you answer.

Our second deep dive question of the week. Find the downloads for answering these questions under the ‘materials’ section.

Our third deep dive question of the week.

Question 4 of the deep dives.

This is the last deep dive question of week 4. I’m including an extra BONUS download under the ‘material’s section which includes some further quick relief anxiety exercises you can practise.

A final task for you this week, and one which I believe will really help if you suffer from shame or fear x

Welcome to Week 5.

It’s a beautiful week of mindfulness and meditation, so let’s dive in!

Here we’ll learn together what mindfulness actually is, and how it can be useful to any of us every single day of our lives.

This is the all important question! We all want to know how mindfulness can help with anxiety. I’ll explain it all in this video.

Starting anything is always the hardest thing to do, and it’s the same with mindfulness! Take my tips in this video to avoid overwhelm or procrastination.

We’re moving on now and covering what is meditation. Enjoy!

We’ll learn some of the INCREDIBLE benefits of meditating in this video. You’ll be amazed!

In this session I will take you through a meditation step by step. If you’ve never ever meditated before, this is for you! Enjoy some peace and quiet with me guiding you.

In this video I’ll give my personal advice on building a meditation practise, how to make it part of our daily routine, and how to actually enjoy meditating rather than making it a chore!

Welcome to this week’s deep dive questions. As with all weeks, you will find the downloads for the deep dive questions in the ‘materials’ section.

Deep dive question 2.

Deep dive question 3.

Deep dive question 4. No ‘official’ homework this week apart from trying out some mindfulness and meditation (see Lecture 72 and 73). Enjoy!

Welcome to Week 6.

Week 6! Let’s head straight in and start with an explanation of what ‘lifestyle’ is.

In this video we’ll touch on quite a sensitive topic, which is how we sometimes use food for all the wrong reasons.

What is the Feelings, Actions and Belief (FAB) factor? We’ll find out in this video.

In this video we’ll cover what is known as a routine ‘healthy diet’. This is taken from the UK guidelines, but a nutritionist or dietician is the best to question if we wish to have specific, tailored dietary advice, for example, if we suffer from food allergies.

Physical exercise is one of the number one things we can do to bust anxiety. We’ll go into more details in this video. Let’s dive in.

Sleep is THE MOST underrated thing on the planet, seriously. So many people suffer from lack of sleep and it’s time to address that. Let’s find out more in this video.

How do we start to improve our lifestyle? Start small with little daily changes. Here’s some ideas for you in this video.

Deep dive question 1: As always you can find the downloads to accompany the deep dive questions in the materials section of this week.

Deep dive question 2.

Deep dive question 3.

The last deep dive question this week.

Some light homework this week. One of the homework tasks is to fill in the FAB cycle if you feel you have an unhealthy habit with food. ONLY fill this in if this is the case.

Welcome to Week 7.

Welcome to week 7! Here’s what we’ll be covering this week.

What do we mean by the word Mindset? It’s probably THE most important part of being an ‘Anxiety Buster’ so really listen in on this one.

How can our mindset improve our anxiety levels? It really does make a huge difference! Let’s dive on in.

It’s really important that we all understand just how powerful our brains are, and how they can change for the better! Welcome to the neuroplasticity topic.

In this video we cover the key differences between adopting a ‘growth’ mindset versus having a ‘fixed mindset’.

Resilience is the ability to ‘bounce back’ in the face of adversity, and it’s something we can all develop in our lives.

We all know about having courage when we’re in danger, but what about courage in every day life? It’s something we could all do with a little more of.

I have grouped all of the deep dives this week into one video, so simply pause in between each question if you wish to answer the questions as you go along. As always the downloads for this week are in the materials section.

Homework for this week! See you in week 8, have a great week and keep ‘anxiety busting!’

Welcome to Week 8. Please see this week's downloadable resources below.

Let's go over the week 8 curriculum before we dive straight in.

It's really important to reflect on how far we've come, how much we've learnt and how we're feeling at this stage in the programme which is what we'll cover in this video.

Here we discuss what I call 'the thing' about medication, which is where much of the medication we take is to treat the symptoms, rather than the cause.

Lets talk about anxiety medication in this video.

My top tip for you when it comes to taking medication for anxiety.

One of my absolute FAVOURITE topics to talk about! How our lifestyle can be our 'medicine'...

How are we currently living? Rushing around, no time to spare? Tired all the time? It's time to face facts and do something about it so we can improve for the present and future.

Learn a brief summary of what I believe is the optimal lifestyle to live.

Mobile phones and our health is a really hot topic and we need to cover it here in regards to our anxiety levels.

Learn how we can best help ourselves if we find our phones are taking up too much of our time and attention.

Here you'll find the deep dive questions for this week of the programme (you can find the downloadable paperwork in week 8 Introduction video resources section)

Week 8 homework.

Welcome to week 9, we’re almost at the end! You’ve done so well so far, keep going! Here’s a little message from me.

Let’s jump in and talk about what’s on this week.

Mental health awareness is a relatively well known term but here I give my explanations , and how we can all become more involved.

A necessary topic to talk about is mental health stigma which still continues to poison society to this day (and is something I’m desperate to change for the better!)

How can we play our part in breaking down mental health stigma? Let me explain in this video.

Let’s talk about the importance of our mental health as women.

What do we mean by the word ‘community?’ Let’s find out.

The last topic of week 9 is the importance of believing in ourselves. It’s a HUGE topic but we cover the basics here.

Week 9 deep dive questions. As always you can find the paperwork to download in the materials section.

Week 9 homework. Enjoy.

We’ve reached our final week of the programme! A warm welcome to week 10 from me.

Welcome to week 10! I can’t believe it’s our final week!

Let’s do a reflection over what we’ve learnt in the programme so far. Be proud of how far you’ve come already!

You may be asking “What’s next for me?” so let me give you some guidance!

If we were to all continue practising and using what we’ve learnt during this programme, you’ll be amazed how far you’ll go!

It can seem very daunting when we come to the end of something, especially here, now, when we’ve made some incredible breakthroughs and come so far in the space of 10 weeks, but have no fear. Let me explain in this video.

Would you like to continue working with me? Here are your options.

Final deep dive questions to ask ourselves.

Homework for week 10. I hope you’ll LOVE It!