Your Anxiety Relief Toolkit - by Andrea Wachter

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Your Anxiety Relief Toolkit

With Andrea Wachter

This course is for anyone who struggles with anxiety. It can be taken as a stand-alone class, or before or after Andrea’s other course, Practical Tools for Anxiety Relief. With our world moving at an unnaturally fast and plugged-in pace, anxiety disorders are at an all-time high. It takes commitment and practice to slow things down and calm our overstimulated nervous systems. This toolkit will help you do just that. Throughout these 10 lessons, you will learn to use a variety of cognitive, psychological, and spiritual tools to help decrease anxiety. Weaving together her professional experience as a psychotherapist and author, along with her personal journey of healing from anxiety, depression, and addictions, Andrea will load you up with practical techniques that you can use on a daily basis. If you are ready to decrease your levels of anxiety and increase your moments of peace, please join us for the journey.


Meet your Teacher

Andrea Wachter is a licensed psychotherapist who is passionate about helping people with anxiety, depression, body image, disordered eating, grief, and communication skills. Andrea is an inspirational counselor, author, and teacher who uses professional expertise, personal recovery, and humor to help others. She is the author of "Getting Over Overeating for Teens" and co-author of "The Don’t Diet, Live-It Workbook" and "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Breaking the 'I Feel Fat' Spell.” Andrea received her Bachelor’s Degree from Boston University and her Master’s Degree in Counseling from the University of San Francisco. In addition to her counseling practice, she is a regular contributor on The Huffington Post as well as numerous other publications.

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10 Days

48.4k students

4.8 stars

13 min / day

Anxiety

English


Lesson 1

The 4 B’s Of Being

Session one begins with an overview of personality types, as well as a bit of Andrea‘s personal experiences with anxiety. She will then introduce you to a simple, user-friendly tool she calls the 4 B’s that will help you identify your relationship with anxiety in any given moment.

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Lesson 2

Sensations Without Stories

In this session, Andrea will differentiate between anxious thoughts and anxious sensations. She’ll then discuss the immense value of separating them from each other and learning to simply notice your physical sensations without attaching any stories to them. You will then practice a guided meditation that will help you experience this important skill.

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Lesson 3

Strong, Soft, Silly Or Silent

Anxiety can be extremely persistent, so it takes extreme persistence to respond and react to anxious thoughts in creative and healthy ways. In this lesson, Andrea will teach you four different ways to respond to anxiety, leaving you with a menu of options that you can take into your daily life.

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Lesson 4

Pranayama Practices

Conscious breathing practices can have a profound effect on the nervous system. In this lesson, we will practice four different breathing techniques that can help you calm your system anytime, and especially during anxious moments. Whether these practices are new to you, or tried and true techniques you already use, they are essentials for your anxiety relief toolkit.

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Lesson 5

Heart To Heart With Anxious Part

Anxiety tends to be one of the most unwanted feelings, which can understandably lead to avoidance and disapproval. However, avoidance and disapproval tend to cause anxiety levels to increase. Just like any other emotion, anxiety needs compassion, kindness and curiosity. This lesson introduces a deep internal process that will enable you to connect with the anxious part of you and offer it the compassion that it needs.

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Lesson 6

What We Resist Will Persist

It’s human nature to avoid pain and seek pleasure, so today’s lesson may be a bit counterintuitive. Introducing and experiencing an ancient Tibetan practice called Tonglen, this session will help you learn to breathe in what you have been resisting and breathe out love, healing and compassion.

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Lesson 7

Soothing Statements And Scenarios

Anxious thoughts and feelings tend to feed off of each other. Many people have anxious thoughts, which then lead to anxious sensations in their bodies, which lead to even more anxious thoughts; and so the painful cycle goes. Today’s lesson will arm you with a variety of different ways to sooth and quiet those anxious thoughts and feelings, enabling you to comfort and ease anxiety in its tracks.

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Lesson 8

Don’t Believe Everything You Think

This session will walk you through a simple and extremely effective process known as The Work. Author and spiritual teacher Byron Katie discovered this 4-step process that guides and enables you to question your stressful thoughts. When practiced regularly, The Work can have profound effects on quieting the thoughts that lead to anxiety.

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Lesson 9

Pressure Points & Bilateral Butterflies

Acupressure has been used for thousands of years to promote relaxation and improved health. In today’s class, we will practice four different acupressure points that you can regularly use on yourself, making this lesson extremely practical and useful. In addition, we will practice a very simple self-administered technique called bilateral butterflies, a form of bilateral stimulation used to induce feelings of calmness.

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Lesson 10

Stop, Drop And Scroll

In this final lesson, Andrea discusses the importance of utilizing anxiety relieving tools on a consistent basis and gives an overview of all the course resources, and more. Anxiety can be consistent, but so can the part of you that seeks peace. With regular commitment and practice, you can decrease your levels and periods of anxiety and increase your states of calm and presence.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 522 community questions and 161 audio replies from Andrea Wachter. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Dimitri

February 2, 2026

Bey bey anxiety!

William

February 1, 2026

Extremely well done and helpful. Thank you.

Alfredo

January 29, 2026

Excellent trading. Thank you!

Jennifer

January 16, 2026

Many great tools!

Rich

January 9, 2026

What a fantastic purposeful and tangible way to deal with anxiety and trauma. Thank you Andrea.

Avinash

November 16, 2025

Thank you 🙏❤️

Pamela

October 27, 2025

Brilliant course,brilliant tips and advice

Karen

October 21, 2025

Andrea is the real deal! She is so genuine her voice is so soothing. I felt like she was always talking right to me. I highly suggest taking this course… You will find tools to get you through the moment or the day and she’s one of the most responsive, genuine teachers I’ve ever found an insight timer

Philip

September 27, 2025

This was truly a wonderful experience for me! Lots of tools for your toolbox!

Glenn

September 18, 2025

Thank you 🙏🙏

Cathryn

September 12, 2025

Wonderful, useful strategies to help relieve anxiety. Thankyou

Lisa

September 8, 2025

This was such an enjoyable and helpful course! Thank you for the help and guidance.

Helen

August 16, 2025

I loved this course. It was very practical and gave me great tools to apply. Thank you

Herb

August 2, 2025

Thank you

Omar

July 13, 2025

Thank you 🤩

Nick

July 10, 2025

Thank you for your help.

Fiona

July 9, 2025

A really useful course, very well delivered.

Lynn

June 11, 2025

Excellent course. There are so many tools to choose from and they are all easily practiced in public, if needed. I will continue to refer to my toolbox to manage my anxiety and stress. Thank you for this wonderful course.

Lee

April 23, 2025

Really good practical help thank you.

Juliette

April 3, 2025

Amazing toolkit. My favourites Tonglen breathing, The Work Questions and the Acupressure ideas. They were all wonderful and I have this fabulous list on hand now. To be honest they are great tools for day to day life, and I intend to practice them daily. Thank you, thank you, thank you Andrea. I love your work. You are a great teacher with your deep and kind wisdom and your soothing voice. A blessing to have have discovered your work. Namaste 🙏

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