How facing my fears in the outdoors helped me overcome anxiety
My struggle with OCD and anxiety started at college when I was 17. Life back then was something to be tolerated. I was low on confidence, depressed and anxious. But fortunately for me I found a way through and in my late twenties I started to find out about anxiety and what I could do beat it. Well it turned out paradoxically that trying to
Overcome anxiety with Acceptance Commitment Therapy
Are you looking for a well-researched and proven type of therapy that can help you move past anxiety? Then perhaps Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT for short, is for you. In this article we explore what ACT is, the benefits of its approach and how I used it to beat anxiety. We also learn about how you too can use it to effectively manage
A better relationship with anxiety – How I learnt to push past my fears
A way past anxiety I am creating this blog to share my story of how i learnt to have a better relationship with anxiety. I found my way out of the rabbit hole of OCD and anxiety and now enjoy an incredibly happy and healthy lifestyle in Barcelona, Spain. If you had told me ten years ago, that i´d be more or less anxiety free
Are alcohol and drugs the fuel for anxiety disorders?
The University for Children At 16 I took the fateful decision of continuing my ´education´ at a college that specialized in providing vocational training for 16-18 year old’s. It was a boarding college and was effectively like going to University, but at the age of 16. I was sharing an accommodation block with 20 other kids of the same age and we were all out
Does anxiety start at school? For some yes, but having a growth mindset can help.
I don´t know why, but fear has always played a major role in my life. Despite having a mostly happy childhood, I grew up feeling uncomfortable in my own skin. I blame a lot of this on my early school life. I hated school! I guess as a young boy I was quite wild, I liked nothing more than to be outside, exploring, building and
