Understanding Anxiety - Why Your Body Remembers and How to Begin Feeling Safe Again

Understanding Your Anxious Brain

A gentle guide to anxiety, trauma and emotional resilience during pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.

If anxiety has you overthinking, checking, expecting the worst or wondering why you cannot just switch off, this guide is for you.

It explains what is happening underneath anxiety, why your body can react before you have had time to think, and how difficult or frightening experiences can leave your nervous system on high alert.

Inside, you will learn about:

• anxiety as a protective response

• why anxious thoughts can feel so convincing

• intrusive thoughts

• reassurance seeking and the search for certainty

• trauma, hypervigilance and pregnancy after loss

• the Window of Tolerance

• simple grounding and breathing tools

• ways to respond to yourself with more understanding and less frustration

This is not about forcing positive thinking or trying to make anxiety disappear.

It is about helping you understand why you feel the way you do, so anxiety starts to feel a little less confusing and frightening.

32-page digital guide

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Lifetime access

£5

Particularly helpful during pregnancy, birth preparation and early parenthood, especially if you find yourself thinking:

“I know I’m safe, so why do I still feel like this?”

Download Understanding Your Anxious Brain today.