How to deal with anxiety
Are you looking for clear explanations and tools on how to deal with anxiety in a healthy way? You’ve come to the right place.
Below, you will find:
- Clear explanations of what anxiety is, how to recognize its build-up, and how to learn to manage anxiety in a healthy and constructive way
- An action plan with an effective strategy that guides you through the inner process
- Tools and guidance that sustainably and effectively support you in achieving your goal.
Happy reading, practicing, and learning through interaction!
Wendy van Mieghem
Psychologist and sociologist Wendy van Mieghem works as a trainer, author, and publisher. Her psychology workbooks, online training, and personalized guidance support people from all over Europe and beyond.
How to deal with anxiety
Everyone experiences anxiety, fear, or panic from time to time. When you feel anxious or panicked, each second can seem like an endless moment where you lose all confidence in your abilities, whether temporarily or not. You may experience anxiety and panic consciously, but they can also be present unconsciously and remain dormant. Either way, anxiety, fear, and panic influence your behavior and relationships. You might start to withdraw from certain situations, avoid certain people, or try to shift the tension you feel onto others. It is because of these adjustments that you become entangled. The inner conflict grows, which in the long run, leads to increased anxiety and panic levels rather than a decrease.
Although it can feel different at times, anxiety is not endless by nature. Once you allow it the right to exist and breathing space, within a constructive framework, you can move past the fight and let the anxiety, fear, or panic naturally subside. So, fighting against the fear or placing it in an inappropriate context is exactly what makes the problem worse.
Flourish
Dealing with fear in a constructive way requires a specific approach that respects the naturalness of the emotion. The grounded wisdom behind anxiety and panic encourages you to understand yourself and life better, and to adopt constructive ways that help you to experience peace in your life. Here and now, again and again.
Anxiety, fear, and panic are not your enemies; they simply invite you to widen your reality and to look and act differently in response. A different perspective may enable you to flourish. Loving self-care and listening to the wisdom behind your emotions can make a difference. What do you need? How can you care for your emotions, feelings, needs and desires, pain, and tensions in a constructive way? Listen to the mirror of your daily life so the pieces of the puzzle can fall into place.
How? I’ll teach you step by step.
Why an action plan?
You’ve already taken the first step by wanting to find out how to deal with anxiety. Good for you! If you want to learn how to overcome anxiety healthily, there’s good news: for many people, it is definitely possible. But it does require your focused attention, time, and practice. It’s also important to get to know yourself better on a deeper and constructive level: what is the neutral nature of anxiety? What should and shouldn’t I do when I feel afraid or have a panic attack? And what do I need to do in order to learn to deal with anxiety and panic in a healthy and constructive way?
One thing is certain: you must do the inner work yourself. No one else can do this for you. However, as soon as you are willing to put in the effort, much is possible! It begins with understanding the psychology of emotions and feelings. Next, you need to become more aware of how you’ve dealt with anxiety and panic so far. After all, dealing with anxiety and fear isn’t new to you. You’ve already developed all kinds of patterns in it, both consciously and unconsciously.
From the inside out
When old patterns prove unhelpful, you’re faced with the challenge of learning to walk new paths. Step by step, you need to develop new strategies for dealing with anxiety and fear that are more effective and less destructive. It is also vital to remove the stinger(s) so recovery can happen— from the inside out. This way, you work towards a lasting behavioral change— durable and effective. If you don’t do this, you’ll notice little to no progress at the bottlenecks, and sometimes your behavior may even worsen. Therefore, follow the step-by-step plan I’ve carefully put together for you. With each step, take the time to reflect: how does this work for me?
Experience is the deepest way of learning and healing
This step-by-step plan provides guidance and helps you navigate pitfalls, blind spots, and confusing moments. It prevents you from getting lost and makes it easier to quickly return to lasting, positive change when you feel lost.
The plan is based on insights from my personal and professional experiences gained from working with over 1000 clients who have come before you. They have learned what to do in order to manage anxiety, fear, and panic in a natural, constructive way. Now, the next step is yours.
I go all out for recovery, regardless of the problem you’re dealing with.
Action plan
How to deal with anxiety
Following the steps in my self-paced action plan will help you refine and deepen your skills in managing anxiety naturally. At the same time, you’ll learn to stay safe and develop a kind attitude toward yourself. It makes sense to start with the first step and then move forward. Choose what you need that fits your budget, purchase your next step, and get started!
STEP 1: Clear explanations of how it works
The psychology workbooks listed below will help you navigate your own and others’ humanity in a friendly and constructive way. They explain how different elements work, why they are there, and what you need to develop sustainable recovery, growth, change, and leadership. Don’t just focus on reading; start answering the reflection questions and completing the assignments. This will help you discover what works best for you. What do you need to do to align your thinking, feeling, and doing to find inner peace and balance?
Handbook The wisdom behind emotion and feeling
Being seen
EXPECTED – How can you learn to feel heard and seen? Being Seen bookazine helps you to hear and see yourself and others more deeply. It offers clear explanations, engaging exercises, and reflection questions that support your sustainable recovery and growth.
Warmth
Warmth bookazine helps you feel safe and secure in your relationships with yourself and others. Its clear explanations, accessible assignments, and reflection questions support you in building healthy connections.
Anxiety and panic
EXPECTED – The practical guide Living with anxiety and panic explains layer by layer what anxiety and fear are, how they can develop, what role they play in your daily life, where your natural influence lies, and how you can use that influence to recover from the inside out and achieve lasting, constructive results. This book is an addition to the handbook The Wisdom Behind Emotion and Feeling.
STEP 2: Practice to become more proficient
Practicing constructive strategies for dealing with anxiety helps gradually increase confidence in your abilities. The more trust you build, the more it becomes possible to offer a natural counterbalance to ineffective or destructive patterns and habits, both in yourself and others. This enables you to make more focused choices in the moment and prioritize long-term well-being over short-term avoidance.
It is crucial to begin with the basics: developing your inner balance. Without this balance, it’s unsafe to overload yourself with intense emotions, feelings, pain, and tensions. When you have too little inner space, you lack an internal filter in contact and communication. As a result, emotions and comments can be received more harshly than intended by the other person. That’s why you need to naturally expand your inner space from within, so you can stay better balanced. I created the online training course Inner Balance specifically for this purpose. The training has been available since 2012 and has been extensively tested and improved. Every person who has taken the online course as intended has experienced deeper peace and balance within a few weeks!
Learning by doing
Join the self-paced 14-week online training course Inner Balance. Create more inner space and achieve deeper emotional and mental harmony while laying a foundation for lasting positive change. Align your thoughts, feelings, and actions. You can complete the course at your own pace. Purchase it separately or combine it with guidance. Below, at step 3 of this action plan, you’ll find more details about the guidance options.
The online training program Inner Balance is currently being retranslated from Dutch to English.
STEP 3: Learn through interaction
Guidance by Wendy
My books, online training courses, and masterclasses are comprehensive resources that include clear explanations, recovery-focused strategies, and a thoughtful therapeutic framework. This approach allows you to make genuine progress while increasing emotional intelligence. As long as you respect my copyright and intellectual property (please buy your own copies!), you’re free to use my products on your own or alongside my guidance.
I am unable to assist with urgent anxiety management issues because my work concentrates on different areas and stages of life guidance. I recommend seeking someone who specializes in hands-on anxiety management and understands the complex emotional dynamics involved. Have you dealt with anxiety before? Are your current life and work circumstances safe and steady? Do you want to pursue deeper personal and professional growth now? If so, you are in the right place. With plenty of love and space, I listen to you and teach you how to help yourself recover and grow.
My guidance emphasizes supporting you as a professional in your sustainable learning and change journey, where well-being and quality are achieved in a layered, profound, and coherent way. Such a process requires a commitment from both of us in terms of time, energy, and attention. When you choose my guidance and training, you opt for personalized support tailored to your specific needs and background. By aligning with the natural process, my clients achieve results that exceed their expectations.
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Hi, my name is Wendy van Mieghem. As a psychologist and sociologist, I am happy to support you in increasing your emotional intelligence and learning how to apply it. Connecting with your human nature and caring for it in a supportive, healing way helps you achieve more lasting, positive behavioral change.
Getting to know yourself and others better allows you to connect more deeply and with greater nuance to what is needed. This way, step by step, you can reach the goal or result you desire in a sustainable and effective manner. Both personally and professionally.
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Warm regards,
Wendy van Mieghem