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The Breaking: Understand Anxiety and Start Your Healing Jour
Created byDr. Jeanne Retief
Last updated 3/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Navigate the Breaking Phase: Learn to make sense of life when you feel shattered and disconnected, and take the first steps toward healing.
  • Reclaim Daily Stability: Gain strategies to manage anxiety’s impact on your routine, relationships, and personal confidence.
  • Foster Self-Compassion: Begin to treat yourself with the same care and understanding you’d offer a loved one.
  • Empowerment Through Clarity: Discover tools to understand your emotions, recognize your triggers, and set boundaries that protect your energy.
  • Growth from Ground Zero: Feel empowered to start from where you are and begin crafting a life aligned with your needs and desires.

Course content

11 sections • 23 lectures • 2h 19m total length

  • Introduction7:26

    Summary

    The Anxious Calm is a community and resource for anxious souls seeking to coexist with their anxiety. Dr. Jeanne offers realistic tools, content, support and community based on her own lived experiences with Panic Disorder.

    • This course focuses on the space between the Breaking and Recovery.

    • The goal is to help you get to a safer, more secure space so healing can begin.

    • Slow and steady journey with no instant fixes.


    [DISCLAIMER]

    This course is not meant to diagnose, treat, or give medical advice of any kind. I strongly urge (not only recommend?) you to get a good mental healthcare team or support system behind you. If this is not accessible, then reach out to other methods of aid through counselling, churches, community services, online support systems and help centers.


  • Your Responsibilites6:29

    Summary

    There are certain responsibilities that come with recovery and, eventually, coexisting with your anxiety. We learn about the mantra that "Trying is Surviving."

    • First stages post Breaking can be overwhelming, but its important to keep trying.

    • We are not aiming to succeed, only to keep trying.

    • The significance of the course exercises and the importance of doing the work.

    • The cumulative effect of course work for the soul, mind and body.

    • Introduction to the online community and how this can help.


    ____________________

    [DISCLAIMER]

    This course is not meant to diagnose, treat, or give medical advice of any kind. I strongly urge (not only recommend?) you to get a good mental healthcare team or support system behind you. If this is not accessible, then reach out to other methods of aid through counselling, churches, community services, online support systems and help centers.

  • Intentions vs. Affirmations4:08

    There is an important difference between setting intentions and using affirmations. Learn why Dr. Jeanne prefers setting intentions, how the brain works with it and why this may be a more practical tool than affirmations.


    ____________________

    [DISCLAIMER]

    This course is not meant to diagnose, treat, or give medical advice of any kind. I strongly urge (not only recommend?) you to get a good mental healthcare team or support system behind you. If this is not accessible, then reach out to other methods of aid through counselling, churches, community services, online support systems and help centers.

Requirements

  • This course isn’t about quick fixes or perfection—it’s about learning to thrive in the face of your challenges. Whether you’re navigating anxiety for the first time, rebuilding after burnout, or simply trying to make sense of a difficult season, The Breaking offers a safe and supportive path forward.

Description

When life feels overwhelming and anxiety takes hold, finding your way forward can seem impossible. Whether you're navigating burnout, struggling after an anxiety diagnosis, or simply feeling stuck, The Breaking is here to guide you through this critical phase of your journey.

This course offers a compassionate, practical approach to healing, grounded in real-life experience. Created by Jeanne Retief, an educator with 20+ years of experience and a personal journey through panic disorder, The Breaking provides tools and strategies to help you rebuild your daily life with clarity, strength, and resilience.

Unlike quick-fix self-care guides, The Breaking is designed to meet you where you are—at the raw, initial stages of transformation. You’ll learn how to navigate daily challenges like overwhelm, self-doubt, and emotional exhaustion, while also developing the skills to reclaim balance and inner calm.

Through engaging video lessons, actionable exercises, and real-world tools, this course will help you:

  • Create practical self-care routines tailored to your needs.

  • Reframe anxiety as an opportunity for growth and self-discovery.

  • Build emotional resilience to face life’s challenges with confidence.

Whether you’re taking your first steps toward healing or looking for meaningful ways to reconnect with yourself, The Breaking will empower you to move forward. Enroll today and begin your journey toward calm, clarity, and a more balanced life.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone standing at the crossroads of burnout or an anxiety diagnosis, seeking clarity, tools, and guidance to rebuild their daily life. It’s for sensitive souls ready to embrace healing, navigate their challenges, and take their first steps toward a life of balance and inner calm. It’s also for those who are tired of the endless stream of self-care advice and quick fixes that don’t truly address the depth of their experience. The Breaking is created by someone who has walked this path, lived with panic disorder, and understands what it means to rebuild a life from the ground up—offering guidance from a place of authenticity and personal experience.

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