The Anxiety Guy Weekly Newsletter (Sign Up Here)


Dennis here and I’m excited to present to you our new weekly theme for the newsletter which is going to be known as 5 point Saturdays. Each week I’ll be sharing with you 5 personal points that will aid you along in your anxiety healing journey. These will be:

    1. What I’m reading this week.
    2. My biggest reflections from the week.
    3. My personal mindfulness practice for the week.
    4. Our community success story of the week.
    5. The words of wisdom that spoke to my most deeply from the week.

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What I’m hoping for from sharing with you these personal points is a deepened relationship between us, along with insights that you can use moving forward in your life. I also would like to update you on the latest Podcast, YouTube, and Blog content weekly so that you don’t miss any of the other important content that I put out.

With that behind us, let’s get to it! Also, I apologize if the paragraphs are not separated as this is the way it is pasted straight from this weeks newsletter. Enjoy…

1) What I’m reading this week:

The Socrates Express – Author Eric Weiner really has put together a masterpiece around this book geared towards people interested in life lessons and philosophy. There are so many points in this book that stuck out to me that I literally filled up a 150 page notebook with notes (double sided), however there was one thing that stuck out to me while reading it.

I realized that as I was reading this book (along with other books on Philosophy) I wasn’t receiving much in terms of practical usage for myself and the anxiety sufferers I’m helping, and secondly I felt more distant from the problems I hear about daily from others. Strange I know, but real.

As much as I am the biggest fan of Philosophy we must understand that the teachings aren’t for everyone.

Can an anxiety sufferer pick up a book like this and gain something valuable and practical from it? I guess that would depend on what stage you are in your anxiety healing journey. If you’ve left a place of franticness and are pulled more towards heart felt answered led by the curiosity of your mind, you will benefit from this book. However, I don’t feel like it would be much help to people who haven’t yet put in a certain degree of messy inner work yet.

All in all, I love these types of books that get me thinking. Thinking, pondering, but rarely coming to a conclusion. I guess that’s the point sometimes with Philosophy, to look to understand, to look to question things, and be ok with the lack of certainty around the answers that may or may not arise.

2) My biggest reflections from the week

As mentioned on our Facebook Support group I’ve ran into a few weeks of heavy personal and professional reflection time. A time to reflect on where I am, where others are, and what may come next on the journey. As far as my biggest reflection from the week I must conclude that it has everything to do with social media.

For the last few years my goal has been to build a tribe, a group of people willing to be taught the lessons I learned through my own anxiety recovery.

Not only that, but to allow me to aid them through my own intuitive wisdom and ideas in order to find inner peace.

However, there came a point recently where I realized I was a victim to these social media platforms which affected my creativity greatly. You see, every influencer out there is battling to get in front of others. Some have an honest approach to digital marketing while the majority will do whatever it takes to get their ‘numbers’ ahead of others.

So in the end, is this about helping others or beating the competition I thought?

The more you post the happier these platforms are and the more chance you have of reaching people. The less you post the less chance you have of getting in front of the people you need to. It’s just the way it is, so has quantity overtaken quality? To some extent it has, since influencers today are glued to their devices ready to share the next Instagram story in the hopes of staying relevant and pleasing that particular platform (before the story gets taken down in 24 hours of course).

In this digital age that we live in I realized that I would much rather have less followers, likes, comments etc. but reach the ‘right’ people. It’s not a numbers game for me anymore as it once was, it’s a genuine desire to connect with people who have been intuitively drawn into my direction.

Anyway, this really isn’t a revelation of any kind but it was something I thought worthy enough to share with you today. 🙂

3) My personal mindfulness practice for the week

I feel like I have certainly put in the focus and energy this week on actively listening. I believe I’ve always been a better listener than speaker but this week I paid close attention to peoples vocabulary and what they had to share with me.

It’s amazing what you can learn from someone else when you remind yourself that you don’t actually have all the answers in life.

Often, when you are the one people look up to for answers they also think you no longer have and problems or challenges. Life does get easier, but this is quite misleading. My challenges show up daily, and I enjoy them more today than I ever have before as I no longer feel a separation between good and bad.

Back to my mindfulness practice though. *Enjoying the anxiety guy weekly newsletter so far? Comment below.*

I love people, I truly do. However the person I love spending most time with and listening intently to is myself. This kind of mindful listening act can teach us plenty around what we truly believe about ourselves and reality. I urge you to be your own best listener, and react less. And when it comes to others speak less, listen more, and the quality of your ideas and words will shine through.

4) Community success story of the week:

You can tell how much work Matthew has put into healing his health anxiety (Links to the health anxiety podcast here) and re-conditioning himself to believe something totally different than what his subconscious mind was telling him. Life has moved from threatening to safe in Matthew’s world and you can catch one of Matthews regular posts and mingle with him if you’d like through our Facebook support group today.

Keep up Matthew! *Sign up to the anxiety guy newsletter above and get these posts straight to your email weekly.*

5) Quote of the week

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

These illusions come with a certain degree of familiarity and therefore safety, and many of us are unwilling to give up safety for what would feel uncertain and therefore unsafe. Take for example anxiety sufferers who are just starting to deal with their stored traumas and suppressed emotions.

They are ashamed of what they did or didn’t do and to hear the truth that it wasn’t their fault would potentially mean that someone else was at fault.

We love our parents and caretakers so deeply that we would rather take the blame and continue to suffer for the sake of them not feeling what we do. This is one example, and yet a common one I’ve run into often in my teachings.

The truth will also set you free. It’s not until we run towards the burning building that we realize what our true potential really is. It’s not until that point where we begin swimming in that cold lake of water we call change that we begin to realize that the cold water begins turning warm over time, and what was once a scary idea was just an idea all along.

This quote spoke to me deeply, even in my personal life as I also may very well have things that I avoid hearing out of fear of my inner child feeling vulnerable once again. Thankfully my adult mind and my inner child mind get along very well lately. There’s no longer irrational fear, but rather rational fear that comes and goes. Instincts no longer run my nervous system but rather the combination of intuition and learned intelligence are taking over.

To sum it all up, I want to say thank you. Thank you for reading the anxiety guy weekly newsletter for the week of November 26th to this very point as it means a lot to me.

Your progress is my happiness, I truly mean that and we are all blessed with the opportunity to overcome anxiety in order to use our new found truths to become more than we ever have before, and to see more clearly than we ever have before.

Much love,

Dennis



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