Anxiety Rx

The biggest question I get asked is "How do I heal the ALARM in my system?".  For months I've been working on this anxiety relief program from scratch and it's very close to being ready. This program is designed to show you what anxiety truly is and how you can heal from it. It contains video and audio components to help you heal your anxiety and not just cope with it. Along with neuroscience base...

In this podcast, I explore the importance of creating healthy attachments with our parents, even if it's through our own imagination, and how it can help us heal from childhood wounds. My 89 yo mother is failing and it's taking everything I have to deal with her. I didn't have a healthy attachment to her growing up, nor did I have a healthy attachment with my father. Listen in as I share my insigh...

I've never met ANYONE who suffered from chronic anxiety and didn't see themselves as a victim, including and especially ME. For the most part, anxious people were victims of trauma or unresolved emotional pain and our nervous system was trained to be on defense, which will never allow us to heal from anxiety. To heal, we must see our victim mentality and go TOWARDS our fears and not retreat from i...

This episode, is the most practical and emotionally vulnerable episode of the ANXIETY Rx PODCAST so far.  In this episode, I talk about the root cause of anxiety being a separation of your adult self from your child self and the practice I do every morning of listening to Peter Gabriel's "IN YOUR EYES" because the words are about creating a connection with his younger self. I drill down to the mea...

In this episode, I talk about attachment styles and how the core of secure attachment is the ability to trust love. I discuss how the lack of attachment in my own childhood led to my sense of chronic alarm and the importance of attachment in my own healing from chronic anxiety and alarm, along with how developing a secure attachment to yourself is critical to the healing process. Press play now to...

In this episode, I discuss how connecting with the younger version of ourselves can help us deal with anxiety or trauma. Our inner child sends a signal to us when we feel anxious, and we should be grateful for it. When we show kindness and care to this younger version of ourselves, we can begin to feel better and move away from anxiety. Lastly, I share a bit about my own experience and encourage y...

In this episode, I talk about how anxiety and difficulty accepting uncertainty are related, which is often caused by traumatic experiences during childhood. I explain that uncertainty can trigger worry and anxiety in the body. To overcome anxiety, it is important to become more tolerant of uncertainty by recognizing and accepting it, as well as understanding and addressing the cause of the alarm i...

Resistance is one of these things that rules our lives and we don't even know it. That's the thing about resistance. Resistance is one of the biggest sabotages, and it's a trick of the ego. The ego will resist anything that's ever hurt you in the past. Listen to this episode where I go into detail about resistance and how it's ruling your life. You can also WATCH this episode on YouTube by clickin...

I answer your anxiety questions in this episode! The following are the questions I answered (in detail): 1. "When is ALARM a good thing and should be paid attention to?" 2. "Is there a way to "unlearn" the bodily feelings of anxiety? After I had my first panic attack my body remembered how it felt and now it goes straight to it when I'm stressed." 3. "How can I tell if I'm having an anxiety attack...

If you didnt get your childhood needs met by an attuned, attached parent, your anxiety and alarm may be fed by a controlling "Alpha Complex". This episode will help you see if you were an Alpha Child who is now an Alpha Adult - and what you can do about minimizing its impact on your anxiety and alarm. Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here:  @theanxietymd  if you have any questions...

Health anxiety has very little to do with your health! For us worriers, becoming fixated on your health (Google it!) is seen as a more “acceptable” option than dealing with old pain. We resist feeling the alarm energy in our body by being endlessly trapped in the (health) worries of our mind. Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here:  @theanxietymd  if you have any questions. P.S I w...

In this episode I NERD OUT and go into the neuroscience behind 7 traits of anxious people because I believe that knowing the science helps us & creates more awareness. The truth is, anxiety is your brain acting normally, to an abnormal situation. Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here:  @theanxietymd  if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life'...

The real cause of anxiety has very little to do with the mind and much more to do with old pain trapped in the body. Until we address this root cause, we will never truly be able to HEAL our anxiety, only COPE with it... Thank you for listening and you can find me on IG here: @theanxietymd if you have any questions. P.S I wrote THE book on healing anxiety. It's my life's work so that you don't hav...

Most people can’t heal from chronic anxiety because they don’t understand what anxiety truly is. This episode shows exactly how “The Body Keeps The Score” and how healing actually occurs… and it’s not what you “think”! Thank you for listening! If you have any questions, you can DM me on Instagram by clicking here: @theanxietymd

UPDATE: This program is not currently running. In this episode I want to talk to you about my 12 week program, Your Anxiety Prescription. Thank you for being here. If you have ANY questions, please DM me here on IG. Your BIGGEST supporter [after yourself], dr. Russ  

You don't have anxiety, you have alarm. That alarm is in your body and you need to feel it to heal it. But first you need to find it! This episode is about seeing the true source and root cause of what you call "anxiety" i.e the alarm that is stored in your body. Once you find your alarm you are well on your way to healing from chronic worry. Thank you for being here! If we aren't friends on IG ye...

When we are "anxious" our automatic urge is to figure a way out of the feeling. But what if the problem with anxiety is too much thinking to start with? You can't fix over thinking with more thinking, right? You must learn how to FEEL your way out. Thanks for being here! You can find me in on IG here: @theanxietymd

Episode 13 of the Anxiety Rx podcast is much of my story. How I discovered I had anxiety (and alarm) how it tormented me, and how I found a way out. I ramble quite a bit in this one, probably because I was triggered going into the most painful parts of my life. It shares my experience with chronic anxiety and alarm and I hope that my healing journey provides insights you can use for your healing j...

Many of us worriers have a "sunscreen" view of the world in that we block out 99% of the safety that is all around us. If you can't see and commit to the world as a safe place, of course we are going to stay in ALARM. If we believe the focus on threat keeps us safe, we will experience the exact opposite! Thank you for listening, you can find me on IG @theanxietymd

Do you allow yourself to receive? Or are you doing most of the people pleasing/giving to others? When we see the world as a place that does not nourish us enough, as was often our childhood circumstance, we learn not to expect the world to help us, and actually CREATE a world that stops feeding us. We often BLOCK and RESIST any help the world does give us, and then blame the world for not filling...

Anxiety and alarm are made so much worse by two things: UNCERTAINTY and RESISTANCE. In fact, combining the two, it is our resistance to uncertainty and the alarm that creates in our physiology that is the origin of our worries. In this episode of the Anxiety Rx Podcast, I talk about recognizing and neutralizing these two factors that make our lives so much more painful than it has to be. Find me o...

As the podcast is a direct result of the book, Anxiety Rx, I've made the Dedication and Preface for the book Episode 9 of the podcast. This will give you a feel for where everything started for me and why I've made it my life's work to helping others with anxiety. I don't want anyone to have to suffer like I did, and I wanted my dad's pain and eventual suicide to be a force for good.  I'd love to...

In this episode I talk about why your MD can't heal your anxiety. We MDs are not trained (or aware) of the impact of childhood wounding and the ALARM it creates in the body, and even if we were, we don't know how to deal with it other than to prescribe medication. Even psychiatrists (MD's who specialize in psychiatry) are doing much less therapy, moving more to medications as well, and "Pills Don'...

I've had many people ask me about psychedelics in the past couple of weeks. Specifically, if psychedelics could help them overcome their anxiety. I learned things by taking LSD, Ayahuasca and Psilocybin that I would NEVER known or come across as a traditional medical doctor. In this episode I include chapter 53 of my book ANXIETY RX, entitled, "Dark Night of the Soul". It discusses the good, the b...

Many of us with anxiety devalue ourselves. We look after others' needs ahead of our own and often succumb to the stigma of being "anxious" or say "I have anxiety". When we devalue ourselves like this, it makes it much harder to accept ourselves —and self acceptance is one of the cornerstones to healing... Head on over to my IG, @theanxietymd and let me know how this episode resonated with you. Tha...