The first thing to understand about anxiety is that the problem isn't that you're feeling anxious. Or at least, it’s not only that you’re feeling anxious.

Feeling anxiety is a normal part of the human experience. 

The problem begins when you try to stop feeling anxious. When you try to suppress it. When you try to distract yourself from feeling it. When you try to control everything around you in order to prevent situations where you might feel it.

If you’re feeling anxious, my goal is to help you unwind and let it go. 

But “letting it go” is not so simple because "letting it go" is not about avoiding it, getting rid of it, or pushing it away.

If you’re struggling against the anxiety, if you’re trying to escape the anxiety, then the anxiety is not going anywhere. 

Let’s start by saying that if you’re trying to get rid of anxiety, that’s perfectly natural. But it won’t work.