Practical Tools For Anxiety Relief

Join psychotherapist, author, and teacher Andrea Wachter as she guides you through a menu of effective techniques for anxiety relief. If you’ve already completed Andrea’s previous Insight Timer course, Your Anxiety Relief Toolkit, these lessons will present you with even more tools to expand your kit. If this is your first course with Andrea on this topic, you can begin building your toolkit now – no prerequisites required! Combining therapeutic techniques, scientific theory, writing exercises, guided meditations, and a good dose of humor, these 10 lessons will load you up with a variety of practical tools to decrease anxiety and increase peace.

Leçon 1: What Was, What If, What Is

This lesson begins by introducing the important components of creating an anxiety relief toolkit, or adding to an already existing one. We will then practice a simple and effective exercise that will help you shift out of past and future illusions and connect with present moment reality.

Leçon 2: Channel Changing

This lesson is about changing our internal channel when we realize we've been stuck on anxiety-producing mind movies. Together, we will practice a gentle and uplifting exercise that can help you whenever anxiety arises. This process can also be used anytime you are in need of a mood shift or uplift.

Leçon 3: Faster EFT

You may be familiar with the alternative therapy called, Emotional Freedom Techniques, also known as EFT or tapping. In this lesson we will be practicing a similar method called Faster EFT which incorporates some of the original version, along with a few additional healing modalities.

Leçon 4: Naming & Reclaiming

In this session, we will be using creative and playful ways to create separation between your authentic present self, and the part of you that experiences anxiety. This really helps to increase awareness and decrease anxiety. We will also do a writing exercise that will help you achieve clarity, compassion, and commitment.

Leçon 5: The Healing Power Of Love

For those who suffer from anxiety, it’s very common and understandable to dislike and disapprove of anxious feelings and sensations. After all, they are quite unpleasant. Ironically, it is often that very same judgment and disapproval that ends up increasing feelings of anxiety and tension. This lesson highlights the importance of offering anxiety the compassion and love that it needs.

Leçon 6: Self-Havening

In this lesson, we will be doing another hands-on healing technique to calm the nervous system and soothe any anxious thoughts and sensations. This gentle and effective process can actually elicit positive changes in the brain by using your own touch to send signals through your nerves and skin receptors.

Leçon 7: Self-Parenting

In this lesson, Andrea discusses the importance of practicing kind and compassionate self-care. Three different styles of self-parenting are explained, and you will have the opportunity to identify which style you typically use with yourself. Then, we will do an affirmation meditation to support being an ideal parent to yourself.

Leçon 8: Soften, Soothe, Smile

Using two simple and relatable acronyms, today’s lesson will cover some important scientific facts that can help you understand the chemical cocktail of anxiety and how to immediately shift out of its grip. Then we will meditate, using our incredible imaginations to induce pleasurable chemicals into our systems.

Leçon 9: Shakin’ & Awaken

Intentional shaking is a natural way to relieve our bodies of stress and feel more grounded. Most of us have been conditioned to “keep it together” and appear calm, cool, and collected. In this session, we take a lesson from animals as we encourage our bodies to release trapped energy through intentional, therapeutic shaking.

Leçon 10: Storm Preps & Next Steps

We begin our final session with a practical writing exercise that can really help when you're anxious and overwhelming thoughts are getting the best of you. Andrea will also summarize the course concepts and potential next steps on your path to peace and relief.

Reviews

Andrea shares so many wonderful tools that are short, quick and easy to do… Both in this course and her other course on anxiety relief. I am so grateful that I found these courses and have been able to use many of these tools on a daily basis. Her voice is very soothing and calming in an of itself… These are courses you do not want to miss. Thank you, Andrea.

A phenomenal course, filled with practical, easy to understand tools. Andrea is gentle and kind, and her voice is so soothing. Highly recommended! Thank you Andrea… 🙏🌸🦋

Thank you so much! The tools have been/ are very helpful. Will be revisiting!

Another fantastic course with a lot of simple and useful tools to manage anxiety. Loved it. Listening to Andrea’s voice is another tool in my kit!

So wonderful. This is my second of Andreas courses and if you experience anxiety, I really recommend it. All the tools are easily doable and Andreas voice feels comforting as though you have someone on your side 💓

I loved all the lessons, I learnt a lot. Thank you very much.

Great course. My second time and i got so much out of it. I use the tools daily.

Amazing course FULL of practical tools. Andrea is such a wonderful teacher and guide.

Started using the simple tools immediately with success. That they are uncomplicated and straight forward made them easy to remember.

Exceptional course! I found each class to be calming as individual experiences while the content as a whole left me with a practical tool kit. I found myself using the tools almost instantly the day I learned them and benefiting with ease. Thank you Andrea!

Thank you for this comprehensive tool kit! There are so many options. Now, on to daily practice!DOSEi is my favorite. ☮️💟🕉️

A practical course for anxiety relief. Extremely useful in our day to day lives. Many thanks!

Absolutely Fantastic - Thank you so very much for these wonderful tools - looking forward to your other class as well.

Really helpful thank you. I will be going back to practice the tools. ♥️🙏

After taking Your Anxiety Relief Toolkit, this is the second course I joined in Andrea’s class. I really love the acronyms she used and those are easy to get remembered.

Terrific course. My hibby & I enjoyed it! Thx so much!

Another great and ever so useful course, Andrea. Thank you.

Good useful course ! I’m doing a different teacher on my next course since it’s next in the queue but I’m def doing the other anxiety course too!

This course by Andrea Wachter is one of the most helpful courses I have participated in. Each tool to release anxiety and live in the present, deeply relaxed, is helpful in it's own right. She teaches about each tool that can be easily used and practiced. I truly feel that I am on the road to an anxiety free life. I have been searching for most my life and here is a whole toolkit of helpful practices. I thank Andrea and Insight Timer for having this available for us. I am practicing what I have learned every day and know that I am transforming right before my eyes!
Deep cellular peace to you all!

It’s great to get a set of tools ⚒️ to deal with anxiety and do it daily, thanks 🙏