Resources
Anxiety & Thinking Patterns
Explore conversations about anxiety, overthinking, stress, worry, panic, cognitive patterns, and the ways our thoughts can shape how we experience life. Find practical perspectives on understanding anxious thoughts, regulating your response, and developing healthier ways to navigate what happens in your mind and body.
From Worry to Anxiety: How to Recognize Thinking Traps & Reframe Your Mindset with Dr. Terri Bacow
Dr. Terri Bacow breaks down the difference between everyday worry and clinical anxiety, including the thinking traps that can keep anxiety going and ways to reframe anxious thoughts.
Good for: Anyone who gets stuck in worry, spiraling thoughts, or “what if” thinking and wants practical tools to interrupt the cycle.
What is Panic and How Does Activating the Vagus Nerve Help To Manage It? with Dr. Chuck Schaeffer
Dr. Chuck Schaeffer explains what happens during a panic attack and explores how understanding the nervous system can help people respond when panic takes over.
Good for: Anyone experiencing panic attacks or intense physical symptoms of anxiety.
Why Anxiety Isn’t All in Your Head — And What to Do Instead with Dr. Nicole Cain
Dr. Nicole Cain explores anxiety as both a mental and physical experience, including panic, nervous-system dysregulation, chronic stress, and the fawn response.
Good for: Anyone whose anxiety shows up physically or who feels like their body is reacting before they even understand why.
Learning to Identify and Manage Anxiety While Living a Fulfilling Life with Dr. Lauren Cook
Dr. Lauren Cook explains how anxiety can affect both the mind and body, how to recognize its signs, and what approaches such as exposure therapy can look like.
Good for: Anyone experiencing anxiety who wants to understand it better and learn what treatment can involve.
Decoding Triggers: Unraveling The Past and Rewiring Responses with Laura Rhodes-Levin, LMFT
Laura Rhodes-Levin explores how anxiety triggers can develop from past experiences and conditioning, and how understanding those patterns can help change the way we respond.
Good for: Anyone who wonders why certain situations trigger such strong emotional reactions.
Talking To Strangers: Overcoming Social Anxiety with Jeremy Greene
Jeremy Greene shares how childhood bullying contributed to severe social anxiety and how confronting his fear eventually led him toward connection and his Free Hugs work.
Good for: Anyone struggling with social anxiety, fear of people, or avoidance.
You’re Not Behind, You’re Becoming: Healing Anxiety, Shame & Self-Doubt with Susy Schieffelin
Susy Schieffelin discusses anxiety, shame, self-doubt, nervous-system support, and the reality that healing and growth rarely happen in a straight line.
Good for: Anyone feeling stuck, behind, or caught in anxiety and self-doubt.
Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Heart: A Guide to Presence with Elizabeth Winkler, LMFT
Elizabeth Winkler explores overthinking and rumination and offers practical ways to shift from constantly analyzing life toward being more present in it.
Good for: Anyone who spends too much time in their head, replays situations, or struggles to stay present.
Transforming Perspectives: Thought Reframing to Overcome Negative Thinking with Renee Mill
Renee Mill explains how negative thinking patterns affect emotional well-being and introduces thought reframing as a practical way to challenge and reshape those patterns.
Good for: Anyone who wants to understand negative thought patterns and learn how to challenge them.
You Don’t Have to Be “Sick Enough”: Overthinking, Anger & Asking for Help with Emma Tropea
Emma Tropea talks about racing thoughts, intrusive thoughts, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, and the pressure to believe your struggles aren’t serious enough to deserve support.
Good for: Anyone whose mind feels constantly “on,” especially someone questioning whether their struggles are valid enough to ask for help.