Overview

Anxiety is a master of speed: a sensation, a thought, a story-and suddenly your whole day is running. Breaking the Anxiety Cycle slows everything down and hands you a practical map. Built as a step-by-step workbook, it integrates the best of nervous-system science, self-compassion, cognitive-behavioral strategies, attachment repair, and values work-plus nature-based practices-to help you interrupt anxiety where it actually lives: in your body, thoughts, relationships, and routines. Across six clear steps, you'll: Calm the amygdala with fast, repeatable somatic resets and nature-anchored grounding. Build self-compassion that lowers cortisol and quiets the inner critic. Retrain thinking & behavior with catch-classify-convert thought drills and tiny brave actions. Ease attachment anxiety using practical scripts and safer bids for connection. Choose values over fear and translate them into calendar-ready next steps. Lock in maintenance, with relapse-first-aid plans and weekly rhythm trackers. What makes this different? Doable, not theoretical. Every step includes a ""Why this matters"" overview, guided worksheets, reflection pages, and a Practice Tracker so you can see change accumulate. Whole-person approach. Tools target body, mind, and relationships-because anxiety does, too. Therapy friendly. Ideal for self-guided use, skills groups, or to pair with counseling; clear prompts make sessions efficient and focused. Nature-informed. Simple outdoors or window-view practices add an immediate, regulating cue for the nervous system. By the end, you'll have a personalized calm routine, kinder inner dialogue, a thought toolkit that actually works under pressure, realistic scripts for relationship stress, and a values-anchored plan you can keep. No jargon, no one-size-fits-all promises-just clear tools that help you slow anxiety's momentum and move toward a life that feels steadier, braver, and more you.

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Heidi Schreiber-Pan, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC is a successful psychotherapist, author, clinical director, and sought-after nationwide speaker on topics of resilience, anxiety, neuroscience, and occupational burnout. As an affiliate and former faculty member of Loyola University, Maryland, her past research has focused on resiliency and psychological well-being, including nature-based mental health. Dr. Schreiber-Pan has worked with various organizations, schools, and corporations to reduce stress on a communal level and to increase structural well-being through training in positive psychology as well as emotional intelligence coaching. Dr. Schreiber-Pan has developed unique continuing education courses that combine established clinical methods such as CBT with innovative treatment approaches including nature-based psychotherapy and neuro-counseling.

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