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4 things not to say to someone with anxiety

by Dan Regan | Dec 14, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Living with anxiety can be tough. And trying to support someone with anxiety can be just as tough.

I’m often asked by partners, parents and friends how they can help someone they care about who seems to be anxious. After all, no-one wants to put their foot in it or make it worse and sometimes it may feel like anything you do seems to fan the flames of anxiety (or make them angry that you ‘don’t understand’ or ‘don’t get it’).

So you may be desperate to help in some way yet feeling helpless to help.

I’m going to give you some ways to help a person with anxiety, but before I do, what should you avoid saying to an anxious person?

Reduce Your Anxiety & Worry

by Dan Regan | Dec 7, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Are you fed up with running anxious scenarios over and over through your mind? And constantly thinking of things going wrong and worst case scenarios?

If you imagine vivid scenarios of things going wrong – and often these may be big, bright and colourful – then you can find that you start to generate the anxious feelings you would get if these were going on right now.

These feelings can grow and grow as you go from one scenario to another, each getting more catastrophic along the way.

So how do you calm those anxiety fuelled thoughts?

End Insomnia And Sleep Better

by Dan Regan | Dec 7, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Do you struggle to get a good night’s sleep? Maybe you feel anxious in your own bed? Perhaps you can’t stop all that overthinking?

Maybe you have even learnt to dread your bed time and that ritual of frustration, anxiety, worry and restlessness.

There is no doubt about the importance of sleep – we all know how much harder everything seems to get after a few nights of limited or poor sleep. Not to mention that we need enough rest to cope emotionally and to repair and recharge.

And you could turn to sleeping tablets and use them as a crutch or you could learn how to drift effortlessly and naturally into a wonderful deep sleep every night.

Ease Social Anxiety At Christmas

by Dan Regan | Dec 5, 2015 | Confidence and Self Esteem

With the festive season well and truly upon us, and all those Christmas meals and parties, your social anxiety may be getting to set to rise a few notches.

For some, just the thought of being around friends, relatives and work colleagues can create worry, anxiety and stress. After all, there is all that small talk to endure and all those ‘what ifs?’ about saying the wrong thing, messing up or being judged in some way.

And even if you decide not to go due to those fears, there may still be that nagging concern over what they will think if you don’t show up. So you’re kind of caught in a trap of worry about going versus the worry of not going.

Just like with presentations, social functions may lead to worry about making an idiot of yourself, perhaps by drying up during conversations, not knowing what to say, or worries about being thought of as boring.

So what can you do to lower social anxiety at social events?

Abolish Anxiety Coming Soon

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Very pleased to let you know that my new anxiety-specific website will soon be published.

My new site – Abolish Anxiety – will specialise in helping you to overcome anxiety, social anxiety, phobias and panic attacks.

With lots of useful tips and advice, as well as a free Creating Calm hypnosis audio, it’s certainly worth keeping your eyes peeled for its launch.

Reign In Your Anxiety

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Does it feel as though your anxiety is running your mind and you’ve lost control over your own thoughts and reactions?

In many ways, anxiety is like a river – it will always find somewhere to flow and it will always find something for you to worry about. Whether those anxious thoughts are worst-case scenarios, what-ifs or whys, sometimes it can seem that they are never-ending.

And the more you think all those anxiety-infested thoughts, the more they seem to be there filling your thoughts. So how can you reign them in?

New Free Anxiety Hypnosis Coming Soon!

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

I’ve been busy back in the recording studio producing a wonderful new (and free) hypnosis audio for you.

If you could benefit from feeling calmer, more in control and more relaxed, then this forthcoming hypnosis audio will really help you because I’ve specifically designed it to help you start creating more calm within the storm of your anxiety and worry.

Using this audio, I’m going to help you to start regaining a sense of inner peace and start letting go of all that anxiety and worry so that you can start feeling calmer and more relaxed in your life. Sound good?

Hypnotherapy Experts Book Published

by Dan Regan | Dec 3, 2015 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Very excited to have been published in a new book called ‘The Hypnotherapy Experts: Strategies from the ‘A’ List’ which is now available from Amazon.

The booked is aimed at hypnotherapy professionals who are looking to expand thier business or specialise in a specific area.

My chapter in the book is about how hypnotherapists can help more people to successsfully abolish their anxiety and panic attacks.

Anti-bullying week; My bullying story

by Dan Regan | Nov 17, 2015 | Confidence and Self Esteem

This week is National Anti-Bullying week and as part of that I thought I’d share some of my own experiences and learning from being the victim of bullying.

Personally I found it very hard to even admit (to myself or others) that I was being bullied. I was a grown man, working in a full time public sector role at the Legal Services Commission and I was living in a cycle of fear, misery and dread.

And one of the hardest things for me was that I hadn’t even really noticed the bullying growing and deepening through the weeks.

In fact, as someone who at the time struggled with self esteem issues and a belief that I wasn’t good enough, I thought it must just be me – that I wasn’t up to the job, I was too weak, I was a failure, I had been found out at last…

Anxiety Hypnotherapy Experts Book

by Dan Regan | Nov 12, 2015 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

Very excited that the Hypnotherapy Experts Book is to be published at the end of November and includes a chapter I wrote about helping people to overcome anxiety and panic attacks.

The book is aimed at my hypnotherapist peers who are looking to grow their business and further their career as a hypnotherapist.

It contains help and advice for therapists on many topics, including my chapter on anxiety and panic attacks.