The Instant Anxiety Solution: Simple and Practical Tips and Strategies to Deal with Anxiety with Michelle Biton

In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Health & Wellness Coach and Educator Michelle Biton about her book “The Instant Anxiety Solution: 5 Simple Steps to Quiet your Mind and Achieve Calm” and how her Five Step Alarm Program can help dealing with anxiety. Michelle explains how she has used it, applied everything she talks about here, and that it works. This holistic approach starts with the first step, which involves tools and strategies to activate the parasympathetic nervous system. Thereafter, it is important to identify and label one’s emotions. We discuss how anxiety is on a spectrum and in lower doses and levels, it can be necessary and even beneficial to function in daily life. The next step involves acknowledging one’s feelings and not suppressing, numbing, or avoiding them because if you can’t go through the emotion, you can’t get to the other side. Moreover, we must remember to avoid layering our thoughts and emotions because this would be feeding them, and it could snowball into catastrophic thinking and negativity. The final step is about taking charge and moving forward with the art of mindfulness.  That would help us combine all the different steps and by being centered in the present moment, we can figure out what it is we want to pursue for the future. In many ways, our anxiety stems from a fear of the future, which is something that we can manage and control, especially since emotions are transitory and not permanent.