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How to Cure Anxiety

Did you know that our brains are constantly changing and adapting their structure?
How to Cure Anxiety
Understanding how our brains work and how we can rewire them (neuroplasticity) allows us to outsmart anxiety by doing targeted neuroplastic interventions. Please read on to understand how anxiety IS neuroplasticity in action.
One thing that people often misunderstand is that our brains are always changing. Everything we think and do creates change in our brains. Whatever the experience, whether it is an action or a thought, the brain changes so we get better at that activity and in time it becomes easier and easier and then automatic, Do you remember learning to ride a bike?
But all experiences are not ‘equal’ when it comes to rewiring the anxious brain. Anxious thoughts and behaviours get priority in brain rewiring.

GETTING STUCK IN ANXIETY

Lingering thoughts and worries about past events or traumas can leave you with excessive anxiety long after the initial event. A few examples of anxiety triggers are (childhood trauma, financial issues, relationship problems, physical illness and work pressures) the remnants of these problems can be found in the wiring of our brain.
Anxious thoughts and worries can become habitual – effortless and seemingly out of our control. However don’t worry….the ability to rewire our brains remains with us all until our death, so we can learn to unwire our brains out of anxiety with a focused anxiety programme.
The crippling thing about anxiety is that by its very nature it places exaggerated threats on almost everything. Because threats are given higher priority in our brain it has a major impact on how our brains are rewired – the learnt coping mechanisms or avoidance behaviours change our brains.
Avoidance behaviours, coping skills will create changes in the brain and in time become automatic on a subconscious level. However, these behaviours DO NOT solve anxiety they just help you get by. So the structure and function of the brain changes for the worst and you may get slightly better at managing anxiety rather than beating it permanently.
And here is the problem the coping mechanisms and avoidance become the very thing that restricts recovery. The rewired brain that helps us ‘get by’ is a different brain to the one that helps us flourish and move on.
Most peoples focus is to stop anxiety at any given moment but the problem is the anxiety wiring is still there and waiting to be triggered. We need to create completely different wiring that will halt the endless loop of anxiety allowing us to move forward anxiety free.
Great news, You can rewire the cause of your anxiety – and replace it with calmness and peace of mind.
So how do you rewire your anxious brain to ensure that new neurological pathways are developed, strengthened, and reinforced? By laying down a solid foundation of building blocks, upon which to build the new Anxiety Free Life.
Process and structure beats anxiety it creates the perfect environment for your brain to rewire itself. Find yourself a therapist that understands neuroplasticity.

USE YOUR BRAIN – don’t let it use you.

Here are just a few things you can do to help your anxious brain.

  1. Drink plenty of water so you are not dehydrated. Dehydration causes malfunctioning of the neurons.
  2. Exercise regularly to release blockages in your pathways and get oxygen to the neurons allowing them to flow more freely.
  3. MINDFULNESS. It slows the pathways that sometimes race us into trouble and keep us stuck in the same patterns that created the problems in the first place.

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Ian Young

Ian Young

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Ian is an experienced therapist whose work spans trauma, addiction, anxiety and recovery. His approach is shaped as much by lived experience as by professional training and that combination makes him exceptionally relatable to the people he works with.

People who’ve worked with Ian consistently say the same thing — he gets it in a way that goes beyond what most trainers can offer. He doesn’t just understand the subject. He understands people.

Within Piece of Mind Training, Ian also plays a key role in business and strategic development, bringing a practical, grounded perspective to how the organisation grows and evolves.

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David Gowans

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David’s background is probably unlike anyone else you’ll meet in a mental health training room.

Twenty-three years on the frontline of emergency services first as a police officer, now as an HCPC-registered practising paramedic. He hasn’t studied stress, trauma and burnout from a distance. He’s carried them, in uniform, responding to people at the absolute worst moments of their lives. He understands the culture that makes asking for help feel like the hardest thing in the world because he’s lived inside that culture.

That frontline experience sits alongside his clinical practice as a qualified hypnotherapist and accredited EFT practitioner. David works with real people navigating real challenges every single week. What he brings to Piece of Mind Training isn’t theoretical. It’s current, grounded and built entirely from the inside out.

As part of the team, David delivers training, practises as a therapist and plays a key role in the development and direction of the organisation making sure that everything Piece of Mind produces is professionally rigorous and genuinely human.

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Iona has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of human potential and real-world impact — across psychology, coaching, education, broadcasting, the charitable sector and social policy, in both the UK and the USA.

She is a Master Positive Psychology Coach and twice bestselling author who has supported hundreds of people through coaching qualifications and worked alongside some of the most respected names in positive psychology and personal development. As a keynote speaker and leadership advisor, she helps organisations rethink what success and human flourishing actually look like.

But what drives Iona’s commitment to mental health work goes deeper than her professional background. She lost her brother to suicide. That experience — and everything it taught her about the gap between what people are going through and the support available to them — shapes everything she brings to Piece of Mind Training.

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Ann has spent her career helping people make sense of the things that are weighing on them and finding a way forward when everything feels tough.

Her background is genuinely rare. A qualified teacher, certified hypnotherapist, coach and First Aid for Mental Health practitioner, Ann brings together an understanding of how people learn with a deep, practical knowledge of how people struggle. She still works directly with adults and young people every week supporting those experiencing anxiety, low confidence, emotional distress and the kind of quiet difficulties that don’t always have a name but make everyday life feel impossibly hard.

As a trainer, Ann knows that the best mental health training doesn’t just inform people, it changes how they see themselves and the people around them. She brings that belief into every session she delivers, whether she’s working with a room full of HR professionals or a team who’ve never talked about mental health at work before.

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Andy Griffiths

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Clinical Hypnotherapy

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Andy is a practising therapist, clinical hypnotherapist and the founder of Piece of Mind Training. He’s spent over a decade working with clients across anxiety, trauma, panic disorder and complex mental health presentations not as a theorist, but as someone who has experienced many of these challenges himself.

His personal journey through mental health struggles, panic disorder and years of pretending everything was fine is the reason Piece of Mind Training exists. He built what he wished had existed when he needed it most.

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