This book is a welcome departure from the trove of others I've read that seem to be full of anecdotes of healing or recovery but never quite zero in on the "how" I could take and apply in my own life. This is good advice, though difficult to consistently do for folks like me who often have trouble settling into our bodies. What Anxiety Rx did for me was to distill wisdom I had learned from other sources into actionable steps that I could implement immediately. In Russell’s view, most treatments for anxiety, including medication and CBT, fail in the long term. That source is in a place most doctors and psychologists fail to explore, and that oversight is why the positive effects of most anxiety therapies tend to wear off over time.

I would not recommend this book to anyone, because combining existing knowledge and claim it as your own just seems fraudulent and wronng to me.Russell’s core message has the potential to be transformative – that it’s more effective to use the body to calm the mind, than the mind to calm the body. Initially, I was excited to hear an “alternative” perspective on anxiety as a mental health professional who leads an anxiety coping skills group for college students. Russ offers techniques not only for our thinking minds, but for our feeling bodies, changing not just our mindset, but our 'body-set'. Without being steeped in the concepts and drilling them over and over, a real shift in a lifetime's worth of negative thought patterns would not be possible.

I wrote this book to make my father’s eventual suicide and the suffering of my family mean to help others like me who experienced chronic worry to understand and fix the pain that was sucking the life out of their lives.As a physician, neuroscience expert, somatic intuitive, certified yoga instructor, meditation teacher, and a professional stand-up comedian who struggled with crippling anxiety for decades and has finally healed…I’m here to personally guide you through non-traditional treatments for anxiety. This helps me stick to the present moment, slow down and lean into the sometimes painful but never deadly uncertainty of life. In my 40’s after another emotionally unavailable affair I started having nightmares and would wake vomiting, my eldest child would often, as it’s all she knew, take care of me. In the millisecond after the body feels the alarm, the mind scrolls through the rolodex of potential fears to justify the panicked feeling. Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Award in Psychology ** Anxiety Is Unavoidable: Suffering Is Optional On February 8, 2013, I was a highly anxious and burned-out fifty-two-year-old physician.