Quick Stress Release: Anxiety Reduction Technique: Anxiety Skills #19

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Stress is the physical aspect of anxiety. It comes with things like increased heart rate, shallow breathing, muscle tension, stomach problems, and headaches. It's uncomfortable, but it can be treated. In this video I teach one specific coping skill that helps actually reduce stress and muscle tension.

Therapy in a Nutshell, LLC, and the information provided by Emma McAdam are solely intended for informational and entertainment purposes and are not a substitute for advice, diagnosis, or treatment regarding medical or mental health conditions. Although Emma McAdam is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the views expressed on this site or any related content should not be taken for medical or psychiatric advice. Always consult your physician before making any decisions related to your physical or mental health.

About Me:
I’m Emma McAdam. I’m a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and I have worked in various settings of change and growth since 2004. My experience includes juvenile corrections, adventure therapy programs, wilderness therapy programs, an eating disorder treatment center, a residential treatment center, and I currently work in an outpatient therapy clinic.

In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction.

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[IzumiHui]

I'm afraid of:

- failure
- not being enough
- falling behind everyone else

[JennSunMoonStars]

Anyone who wants to help a person ease their anxiety is an angel from the heavens. thank you for caring!!!!

[dianalade]

I’m afraid of past mistakes that I’ve made, anxiety about having anxiety, overthinking, being old and unhappy, anxiety affecting my brain negativity and making me mentally unstable, things being wrong with my body, and death.

[Iev]

There should be a subject or class like this in school too, they should care bout our health too not just studies :, /

[scimist]

Emotions I’m MOST afraid of:
• Feeling of having a health problem
• Feeling of being Alone
• Feeling of being Doomed
• Feeling of being Weak
• Feeling of being unhealthy

[dvmien]

I'm afraid of:

- Failing school
- Not being enough for my parents
- My parents being mad at me

[Animegurl]

Thank you :, )

Emotions I’m afraid of:
-financial insecurity stress
-existential crisis related feelings
-addressing feelings of conflict in social situations

[bananabreadyum]

This just showed me that there a way more people with health related anxiety, than I always thought. It makes me feel less alone with my problems. So thank you all for commenting :)

[taetaemin]

I am feeling stressed about everything...I am now even getting anxious while eating😭

[InazumaLover]

Emotions I am afraid of:
Feeling of anxiety
Feeling of losing myself in anxiety
Feeling of failure
Feeling like im dying
Feeling of incoming pain
:((

[markangeloibanez]

Emotions:
Im afraid of dying
Im afraid of being alone
Im afraid of being unhealthy
I want to go back to my normal self

[jennaturner]

What I’m afraid of:
-being a nuisance
-being too shy and not being able to have a conversation before i even talk
-dying alone
-dying (kind of)
-being alone
-loosing everybody
-being made fun of for being shy and not talking
-failure

[sunflowersandbluewaters]

I’m most uncomfortable when sitting with stress due to fear of not being good enough and being misunderstood. Not being liked and not being able to support those I love

Thanks for the video you definitely made me feel better

[siwkim]

im afraid of :
-being alone
-not being loved
-not to live my teen years the way i want

[glpsnagenahally]

I'm so scared because of my studies that I am not understanding online classes but exams r near during covid time.i don't know what to do

[deepthigeendas]

Emotions am afraid of:
Death
Health
Wasting life
Heart problems

[marjamerryflower]

I love the way in which you treated your daughter. I felt loved myself. Thank you, Emma

[re]

Emma your an Angel, watching you explain & do the exercises for reducing stress while scrunging your face was as genuine & real as it gets. Put a genuine smile on my face, & that is hard for me to do these days. 🙂 Thank you and people be kind to yourselves first & foremost. Then let that spill out to others genuinely that will be the beginning, middle, & end of a peaceful, calm, strong resilient joyful day.

[Bubbiesworld]

I have read all of your comments and I just wanted to tell everyone reading these comments. You are all loved!! Love is the way to heal all things. And I just want you all to know I love you guys for being honest and being sincere and fighting anxiety with me. We’re all in this together. Love yourselves and love others!!!

[ebbawickman]

Emotions I am afraid of:
Being left alone
Not being good enough
Disappointing others
Not being the best
Being ignored
Being unhealthy
Stress
Anxiety