Learn to handle your anxiousness with this free, six-part comedic internet sequence.

I’ve spent the majority of my 30+ yr profession working towards one major objective: to supply free or cheap methods to orient as many individuals as doable to therapy for anxiousness issues and to assist them change into educated customers. And since together with some video part appears to assist us soak up data, I’ve developed and launched a 6-episode scripted sequence titled “The Noise in Your Head.”

This objective was bold; I had no clue how one would accomplish this. So I employed a producer and a author/director, and after two months of pre-production, we arrange store in a 2,450-square-foot movie studio in Burbank, California. (“Toto, I’ve a sense we’re not in Chapel Hill, anymore.”)

The intelligent, comedic and concise movies observe Susan, a younger lady who struggles with anxiousness and applies cognitive therapy rules to her on a regular basis life. From yoga class to the window seat of an airplane, Susan engages Nervousness in a wide range of conditions in a competitors to win her life again, finally quieting the noise in her head.

I’m happy to report that the movies have been built-in into lessons and therapy applications all over the world. 

Episode 1 // Meet Your Competitor: Nervousness

Nervousness generates unhelpful worries and obsessions, even when it’s inconvenient. Sure, even in the course of Susan’s yoga class. To tackle this crafty and persuasive challenger, Susan will want an final result image, grit, belief and braveness.

Episode 2 // Ditching Content material, Welcoming Uncertainty

Susan is continually getting sucked into the content material of her worries. On this episode, she experiments with residing with doubt and uncertainty. She might even begin to welcome the uncertainty. Loopy, proper?

Episode 3 – Willingly Search Out Discomfort

You could go towards the stuff that scares you, however motion just isn’t sufficient. Minutes earlier than her flight leaves the bottom, Susan learns that she should willingly select to really feel awkward, uncomfortable, and not sure. 

Episode 4 – Do the Reverse!

On this episode, Susan goes head-to-head together with her challenger in an epic tennis match. To win, she should ignore Nervousness’s messages or—if that doesn’t work—ask him to present her extra anxious ideas and emotions.

Episode 5 – Get Scared, Rating Factors

Susan will get behind the wheel and places her new rules to the check in an intense “apply.” Her objective is straightforward: Rating factors towards Nervousness and start to win her life again.

Episode 6 – Dwelling with Nervousness

For Susan—and for all of us—Nervousness is right here to remain. Generally Nervousness could be extremely useful, signaling one thing worthy of our consideration. And the remainder of the time? Properly, the remainder is simply noise. It’s time to depart the noise behind.

You possibly can view the episodes one by one… or binge-watch the entire sequence like Home of Playing cards. No matter technique you select, don’t hesitate to share. 

“The Noise in Your Head” movies are tailored from Stopping the Noise in Your Head: The New Strategy to Overcome Nervousness and Fear, HCI Books, 2016.