How to Heal Anxiety

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[Mexicana]

I struggled with really bad anxiety in my early 20’s, that was about 15 years ago. It took 3 dr visits for them to tell me I had anxiety disorder. I didn’t even know what anxiety meant at the time. I just knew my body was shutting down. I thought my panic attacks were heart attacks. My vision got blurry, my ears were ringing, my speech was slurring, I broke out, horrible insomnia and I was always sweating.It was horrible. I refused to take medicine. Instead, something in me told me to change my diet. I stoped all caffeine, sugar, and fried foods. Nobody gave me this advice, no phones at the time and I didn’t have internet. I stArted eating healthier, and I did a lot of self -love activities. I put myself first for everything. I made goals for everyday. These goals were simple things that could look forward to. For example, I would say, “OK, tomorrow I can look forward to picking up my little cousin and taking her to the movies.” Or “tomorrow I’m going to take a long hot bath.” Or “tomorrow I’m looking forward to buying that new blouse I’ve been wanting.” Etc. I would force myself to go to the gym and I did acupuncture. My acupuncture session included a massage. I would look forward to acupuncture too. These little things really helped me. I wish I would’ve known about journaling. Thank you for this. Now my anxiety is very low for the most part. I just followed my intuition. :) looking back, in very proud of my young self for being so good to myself and following my intuition and listening to my body.

[MarinaCole]

Two very big tools are missing from these steps - physical exercise and connecting with nature

[Amz_]

Sugar is honestly a big one. My doctor told me to stay away from caffeine which helped a little but she never said anything about sugar. Years later, I found out online that reducing sugar can help anxiety. Cut out all processed sugar and allowed myself to only gave fruit first thing in the morning and honestly cannot believe how stable I felt after 2 weeks. That being said, it is hard! Sugar is so delicious.

[JuwonJimvon]

Dr Nicole, your YouTube videos are reaching similar levels of clarity to your Instagram posts. You are a great communicator and I truly appreciate your generosity. Thanks again.

[TopGun_-]

To you reading this right now... you are beautiful. Everything will work itself out. You ARE not alone in this! Everyone here knows how you feel right now. This feeling sucks, but know that you will be be ok. This too shall pass...Don’t fight the anxiety, just allow it to work it’s way through. Just let it do it’s thing. It will leave on its own. I’m right here with you right now. We’re gonna do this together. This won’t stay long. It’s on its way out now. Just Embrace the moment as you become at peace with things. You are shedding this off as we speak. Now I want you to close your eyes and place your hands in front of you and lightly wiggle your fingers like you’re playing a piano. Feel it melt off yourself. Feel it drip off your fingertips...See, there it love you . Daffodils, sunshine, blue skies, refreshing peace. Breathe out. You are loved....Heavy eyelids, drift away, light fluffy thoughts. There you go, you got this. (I’m still here with you) Now sleep. Stay at rest. out. At peace... at peace.... at peace... at peace....🙏🏻🌼🍀☀️✨🌼🍀🌼🍀🐣🌼🍀☀️✨🙏🏻. Now, if you need to, quietly and softly go back and SLOWLY read this again.

[cold]

I spend 8 years at home, i have a pretty bad avoidant personality. I was constantly finding excuses to remove myself from social life, i stopped my studies, work, i was barely seing my friends, still living with my mom. I couldnt even think of going to a psychologist i truly thought everything was fine with me and that i was just lazy, i just needed to push myself. But the few times i pushed myself went horribly wrong, so i slowly got depressed. In 2014 and 2015 i almost didnt get out at all. I discovered your videos a few months ago, when i was looking for people with the same problems as me. I started feeling so much pain in my body 3 years ago due to the fact that i was barely moving at all and eating pretty badly. So i started exercising and eating clean. I started meditation in the beginning of september, at first i really didnt like it, it felt like a waste of time and i just couldnt focus at all. But thats exactly why you should keep meditating! Its been a month now, and this had the most powerful effect on my bad thoughts. It is just so amazing. I was trying so hard to stop the flow of catastrophic thoughts i had since i was a child. Everytime i was asked to do something simple, like going to the cinema with my best friends, my brain was creating a million excuses to make me run away like my life depended on it. Now with meditation i learned (in such a short amount of time!!) to train my brain to stop telling me all the time to run away from normal situations. Also when i am alone now i dont constantly panic about my future and my life anymore. I finally learned to live in the present. I am so happy i made this step in my life. Ive been going outside regularly since 3 months and i hope to keep doing like that. I am so thankful for this channel and your work, thank you so much. Now i will also try those other points i didnt do yet, to keep healing myself. :)

[Kayyy]

Excellent video.
I used to suffer with severe anxiety and I healed myself naturally through everything you’ve mentioned.

One other thing to avoid is dairy ! It’s highly inflammatory. The key here is to reduce inflammation. Eat an anti inflammatory diet. So so important.

[rita.]

That's exactly how I have healed my anxiety and panic attacks -obviously I did researches on my own because the opinions of the doctors didn't convince me, simply taking drugs didn't seem to me the right path. The first thing I changed was my diet and then I introduced meditation and little goals to achieve every day: my life had already changed that way. Then with breathwork and journaling my life has improved even more, I have started changing my limiting beliefs and working on my future self!
I really appreciate your job, keep it up!

[sallyfields]

Thank you for talking about the connection between nutrition and gut health - such an important piece that so many people are not aware of!

[dattagrace]

Quitting caffeine and alcohol has been the most life-changing decision when comes to overcoming chronic anxiety. Now it is 80-90% less intense. Anyone reading this - QUIT CAFFEINE and see your level of anxiety drop dramatically!!!!


Edit: May work for most, not all, people. Because of course, almost nothing works uniformly for all people.

[robanks]

I heal my anxiety through deep breaths, nature appreciation, better nutrition and finding a new hobby which is art/junk journaling - it makes me so relaxed and happy!

[orchidsrising]

The future journaling work sounds like an excellent idea!! Thank you. I also need to do a lot of body work as in turning up the music and dancing all the energy out of my body and doing yoga like stretching moves such as shoulder rolls and neck rolls, etc, to get in my happy bubble before I go outside into the world containing people 😝 It really changes my energy so I can naturally be in flow and joy and be embodied enough, and people notice, too! It is interesting the reactions of people from when we’re giving off anxiety or giving off inner joy 💗💗

[chrisdinnnc]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've experienced anxiety, racing/overwhelming thoughts of pending doom; mostly of me having some serious health (heart and/or gut) problems and panic attacks that sent me to the ER because of a string of back to back heart palpitations. I have been a care taker for my mom and that has affected me in many ways, stress-wise. I just found this video tonight and after I finish this comment I'm going to watch the videos you have linked. Again, thank you for your compassion and willingness to share your insights.

[katcuzzi]

Hi Dr. Nicole, I just wanted to say that I really really love your videos! They’re brief, easy to digest, informative, and genuine. I also love that the action points are spelled out, making it that much simpler to execute on them. Thank you so much for putting these out there!

[cjz.]

Amazing! I was just like you have known about meditation for years along with breath-work, it wasn’t until a few months ago that I used journaling and breath-work together. Today I am stronger than ever and am going to take your advice to use all of these things together. I’ve seen improvements in my self control in the last few weeks and this is just going to sky rocket me to the next level. Thank you so much, Dr. Nicole! 💚

[lauraguillemin]

The nutrition point is so important. I am so glad you’ve talked about it. Fried food, coffee, alcool take me to a place of uncomfort and bring me anxiety. Thank you for your words ✨

[renam]

You are a great communicator, when you speak it makes so much sense and easily flows. I love these videos btw. I have severe panic disorder and do not currently have the money to be able to get help so I am very greatful you are sharing your information with the world. Thank you🙏

[amywebb]

This is so well said, and I love the way you share really valuable and simplistic tips to deal with anxiety. So needed and appreciated! Thank you :)

[sararaeh]

For sleep ASMR has changed my life! Thank you so much for your videos you’ve helped me a lot.

[MillyWeeble]

Thank you for your time and invaluable videos. I recently completed a 26 week Dialectical Behaviour Therapy course In the UK for depression and anxiety (30 years worth), and have learnt more from your videos in the space of a few hours than I did during the entire course.

Those who have a lived experience, rather than purely academic knowledge, of mental health issues are the greatest teachers, as is evidenced by your good self. So glad I found someone who genuinely and authentically "gets it". Namaste.