Everything Is Terrible: Anxiety Tools For The Age Of Doomscrolling

This is a no-nonsense toolbox for the anxious and overwhelmed, the midnight phone scrollers who are drained but can't look away, and anyone else who needs practical tools for managing anxiety without isolating themselves on a remote island.

Each lesson serves as a tool you can use as needed, rather than a rigid program you have to follow in order. You'll learn practices for:

1: Radical acceptance and compassion, drawing from secular Buddhism and cognitive behavioral approaches
2: Nervous system awareness, for when your body is stuck in fight-or-flight
3: Balance check-ins, to stay informed without letting the news consume you
4: Meaningful action steps, uncovering ways to channel frustration into purpose
5: Restorative daily practices, to lure you off the depression couch and back into your life

This toolbox isn't toxic positivity dressed up as wellness. There's plenty of love and light in here, but we hold it alongside the darkness and shadow side. "Everything Is Terrible" will help you maintain hope, embody the change you wish to see, and persevere through heartache with your humanity intact.

Lección 1: Tool #1: Radical Acceptance

Learn to stop spending precious energy fighting against what already is, so you can direct that energy toward what actually helps. This lesson explores radical acceptance as a practice for the overwhelmed and overstimulated, covering radical self-acceptance (making peace with who you are as someone who can't look away), radical acceptance of others (releasing the frustration of people who don't seem to care), and radical acceptance of circumstances (loosening your grip on how things "should" be). You'll learn about non-attachment to outcomes through the powerful "we'll see" parable, and walk away with a practical question you can use anytime your anxious brain locks onto a worst-case spiral: "What else might be true that I haven't considered?"

Lección 2: Tool #2: Nervous System Reset

You know that feeling when you've been reading the news for two hours, and your chest is tight and your jaw is clenched and you can't fall asleep? That's your nervous system running a survival protocol; it was never designed to run around the clock. This lesson explains what's actually happening in your body when you're stuck in fight or flight, why your ancestors' hardware can't handle a 24/7 global news cycle, and most importantly, what to do about it when you're already in it. You'll learn two specific breathing techniques you can use right away, including the physiological sigh and extended exhale breathing, and you'll walk away with a collection of grounding phrases for when your mind keeps spinning even after your body starts to calm down.

Lección 3: Tool #3: Balance Check-Ins

This lesson will train you to tune into what your body needs in any given moment. You'll learn a quick body scan you can do in 30 seconds, anytime, anywhere. Learn how to check in with five key areas of the body to get an honest read on how you're really doing, and discover when to use the breathing techniques from the previous lesson. The heart of this session is the power of the pause: learning to notice the space between something happening and your reaction to it, so you can choose a thoughtful response instead of reacting on autopilot. Drawing from contemplative mindfulness practices, you'll explore becoming the observer of your own thoughts and feelings, a skill that applies to everything from scrolling through the news to navigating difficult conversations.

Lección 4: Tool #4: Meaningful Action

When you see everything that's broken and you don't know what to do, you may either try to fix it all, freeze up entirely, or exhaust yourself trying to convince other people to care. This lesson walks you through a set of questions to help you find your lane: not just what makes you sad, but what fires you up, and where that fire overlaps with what you're actually equipped to do. You'll also get two permission slips: that your "doing something" can be as simple as choosing kindness with intention in a world that's forgotten how, and that your train can leave the station without everyone on board.

Lección 5: Tool #5: Daily Restorative Practices

All the tools in this toolbox require something of you: energy, presence, clarity. And if you've been running on empty, you're not going to be able to use any of them. This final lesson is about the small, regular, repeatable practices that keep you functional, grounded, and alive to the good stuff that's still here. You'll explore why joy is not frivolous and rest is not lazy, how to tell the difference between self-comfort and self-care (and when each one is exactly right). You'll also discover what daily restoration can look like in a life that's heavy with caring. From morning rituals to nighttime boundaries, this is your sustainability plan for staying in the fight without losing yourself to it.

Reviews

Thoroughly enjoyed this course! It was enjoyable to listen to, encouraging and with lots of useful tips and questions/examples that make you think. I've found the breathing methods and 30s body scan to be very helpful in my daily life. Thank you 💖