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I almost didn't make this podcast. The content you're about to hear came out of one of my best performing masterclasses. It's called the three Minute Hack to stop stress and Overwhelm. How to maintain composure without self sabotaging, even when stressed. The hack you're about to hear came by demand from my community of executives, performers and high achievers who needed results fast to send anxiety backstage so they could do all of the amazing things they're called to do. But let's face it, I want everyone to succeed. My heart is to spread the hope that you can turn the page on anxiety. And so here we are. Spread the word. I think you're absolutely going to love this masterclass. And as an extra little love, I'll include the link to where you can actually watch the video and benefit from the audio and video components. Welcome to my podcast. I'm Dr. Nicole Cain, a naturopathic doctor with a master's in clinical psychology and a former anxiety sufferer turned anxiety freedom rebel. Let's get started. This is a three minute hack to stop stress and overwhelm. How to maintain composure without self sabotaging, even when stressed. Welcome. You're about to learn the three Minute Hack to shift from feeling stressed and overwhelmed to feeling calm and in command. That sounds helpful, right? Especially when you really need to keep your cool and stay centered. If that's what you're here to learn, you're in the right place. Give me a yes in the chat. Before we dive in, I want to state that I'm committing right now to deliver BIG in our short time together. So. So that you have a powerful tool in your chest when trying times happen. And they do happen, right? Of course we all have ups and downs. It's how we navigate them that matters. So I'll give you my best. And what I ask from you is that you bring your best too. Because the worst is when I share tools like this and they don't get used. So if you're committed to up leveling your game by taking this on heart and soul, this, then say out loud right now, yes, I'm here for myself. Okay, let's do this. We have all had those trying times, right? Sometimes things happen in our world that trigger a freakout or a breakdown or an explosion that breaks the dam that's been holding back the cascade of emotions built up from daily life. We can totally lose our cool and sometimes even blow up. But have you found that this is only adding more stress? It risks pushing the very people who could help us farther away, right? Doesn't it make sense to have a plan in place to calm the storm? Wouldn't it be helpful to have a reliable way to get back to grace and retain our composure quickly without reaching for our own flavor of self sabotage? The pharmaceutical industry encourages us to rely on popping pills in order to calm down. Societal norms in some circles are to drink to take the edge off. What do you do? Are you one who overeats until you slump into shame or dive into destructive relationships or shop until your creditors call? We all seem to have our own unhealthy fallback option to distract ourselves and shove it down. But don't we all know that someday these solutions will come back to bite us in the butt? We do, right? That's exactly why today I'm going to give you a quick fix that elevates life. Instead of dragging you down to deal with more problems later, this gives you an intentional tool for use in those anxiety provoking times. Does that sound good? None of us are alone in having freak out sessions or losing our cool, right? We all deserve a quick fix that helps us quickly retain composure and get back to being who we want to be in these short lives we get to live. Because that would be a big win, don't you agree? So how do we go from stress and overwhelm to calm and composed in 3 minutes flat? I'll walk you through that once I introduce myself and give you the science behind why this three minute process works so well. Sound good? Hi, I'm Dr. Nicole and I help people with anxiety, PTSD and depression get their lives back without relying on addictive meds or expensive time consuming therapy. And I use a process called the ACT method which you'll get to experience a quick dose of in the three minute hack. Are you ready? There's going to be three steps to this quick hack that will help you stop stress and overwhelm. Does that sound simple enough? In a simplified way, it's a micro version of the way we can address all stress, all anxiety and all overwhelm using the ACT method. First, we will acknowledge what has kicked us into stress and overwhelm. I'll show you how this simple step can start to calm brains and bodies. Second, I'll give you a quick one minute way to address the cast of characters contributing to distress. And lastly, I'll give you a tool to transcend the situation and get back to being your peaceful, calm self. When we're done, you will have the three minute hack to stop stress and overwhelm Sounds good. Stick around, because if you love this, then you're going to want to hear exactly how to apply the ACT method, which is the combination of acknowledging, knowing the cast of characters and having the tools to transcend your problems in all areas of your life. Sound good to you? Before we dive into this powerful hack, here's the quick backstory on the powerful trinity of the ACT method. Are you ready? The process always starts by acknowledging what we're going through. All too often we're taught to buck up, get over it, shove it down, or that as grown ups, we should be able to navigate around issues with little or no support. You've seen this? Yes? Well, here's the thing. The body has a natural cycle for dealing with things from a minor annoyance to severe trauma. And we can't skip skip this step of acknowledgment because it will leave a sort of stress residue that causes recurring problems later. Does that make sense to you? That's why the first step in both the hack I'm about to show you and in the ACT Method is always to acknowledge what's going on. As you develop your skills at acknowledging, you'll move from feeling like you're stuck inside the drama to feeling like the director describing the drama from an outside perspective. Does it make sense that we have to be present to these things first? Once we've gotten real about what we're feeling, the next step in the ACT method is to understand all of the characters at play. Do you see the value in taking this quick inventory of all of the factors playing into your emotions? Then we'll apply this to our biological characters, which encompasses everything evaluating from our hormones to, to our history to the health of our guts, which is important because that is where our neurotransmitters, which are the chemicals that act as messengers in our brains, are formed. It includes things like how much sleep we've had, how much stress we're under. Can you see the importance of taking a quick inventory of what might be throwing you off? Since this quick 3 minute hack does not have the time to address the more complicated characters that the process I'm teaching you today will simply ask you to do a 60 second evaluation of the key contributing factors, can you see why we need a quick version for a three minute process? And then finally, after we've acknowledged what's going on, we've examined the cast of characters participating in our drama, then, and only then, can we choose the right tools to transcend the problem. After over a decade of helping my Clients heal from every anything to chronic anxiety to extreme trauma, or just simple overwhelm. I've got almost an infinite set of tools for you, from clinical psychology, naturopathic and functional medicine solutions, and even Eastern medicine and other alternative modalities. And the hack you'll get today, the tool we'll reach for to quickly transcend stress and overwhelm will be called timestamping. And there is a mountain of research showing the effectiveness of this process. You following me so far? Now that I've shown you the ACT method that's behind this three minute hack and how it can be used as the foundation for solving even bigger challenges in life, let's dive in. If you want more ACT method magic, you'll be invited to master that with me once I've given you this quick fix. Sound good? The problem when we are stressed or in a state of overwhelm is that it feels too late to do anything about it, right? That's because feelings happen so quickly, they trigger biochemical reactions that cause us to experience intense sensations within nanoseconds. It can feel like a wave has hit us, and before we know it, anyone and everyone around us might end up paying a high price. Does this resonate with you? Even though we know better, we try to reach for grace and patience and composure, but there's none there. The cupboard is bare. Our stock of smiles and kindness is depleted. But we're fully stocked on anger and anxiety and rage and some choice words for anyone related to the problem we're experiencing, especially ourselves. If there's one thing I've seen in my decade of practice, it's that those who don't feel like screaming at others are ripping themselves to shreds inside the explosions and meltdowns happen. The difference is that some explode outward and some implode inward. And babes, both are destructive. Which one do you do most? Do you explode or implode? And when we get a big hit of stress and overwhelm and it's starting to get the better of your naturally normally sane self, I want you to have this tool. So here's the three minute hack to maintain composure without self sabotaging, even when super stressed. Are you ready? Here's step one of the three Minute Brain Hack. All right. We need to get clear on what's going on. That makes sense, right? We can't solve an issue that we are unwilling to acknowledge, right? But we don't want to get lost or swallowed up by the problem either. Especially when we're in need of a quick Fix to get back in the game. So can you see why we're going to keep each step in this process to just one minute? Three steps, three minutes. You'll train your brain to be able to get your composure back and keep on keeping on. Make sense. Now that doesn't mean you won't hit some big ticket items that may need deeper work, but this will get you centered enough to get back to doing what you need to do. Okay, so even when you stumble onto topics that need to be addressed in more depth, when you have time and and emotional bandwidth and mental bandwidth, you can do that, then we need results. Now, are you following me so far? If so, here's my advice. For one thing to do. When we feel a big emotion coming on and we're in a state of stress and overwhelm, step one is when you feel a big emotion rising, reach for your phone and set a timer for one minute. During this one minute, you're gonna brain dump. Let it all out. Okay. Brain dumping is where we take the most pertinent things out of our thoughts and minds. We dump it all out so we can get the full download. You might be wondering how to do this. Just start writing or drawing or whatever is your go to method for getting things out. Let it be freeform. Let it be an acknowledgement of how you're feeling in whatever way feels right. Rip off the layers like there's a juicy center worth getting to. Because there is. Would an example help you see this? Okay, let's talk about a real life example. I was talking to Paul, my loving husband, about a challenge I was having with a girlfriend. And instead of absorbing my story and attempting to really understand how I was feeling, he started talking about himself and venting about what was going on with him. I could feel myself wanting to go ballistic. Can you relate? So I used this three minute process. I excused myself and I started step one by reaching for my phone to set the timer while walking out of the room, which you should know is a good pattern interrupt in and of itself. Meaning that just the process of starting this first step creates some space from that flustered rush of feelings and starts to make room for perspective change. See that? So anyways, I grab my phone and I set a timer for 60 seconds and I start letting it rip. Okay, I feel. What the heck? I'm trying to share something with you. I feel you're so mean not hearing my story out. What a self centered man, baby, that you go straight to your problems. Okay, I'm actually feeling really hurt Here I feel unimportant. I feel like my problems are stupid to him. That happens to be exactly how I was feeling with my friend in the story I was trying to share with him in the first place. So the same wound feels like he poured salt on it. I feel not seen or heard, not cotton. Doesn't it make sense to acknowledge all of that? Yuck. After letting it all out, I even had a few seconds left over, but I was very clear and able to acknowledge how I was feeling. Makes sense. I'm going to trust that you're following this and I hope that you're starting to see how much we can barf out in just 60 seconds. Pay close attention to the fact that this step involves no problem solving, no rationalization, no removal of blame from myself or the other, no justifications or letting anyone off the hook and and no limits. Just let what's true for you in that moment be acknowledged. Do you see it? Okay, now I want to move on and show you what to do in step two. But before I do, I have to acknowledge the elephant in the room, which is that some of us can't describe or pinpoint how we're feeling when we're all riled up and upset. Have you ever experienced that? Big emotions and little clarity. Let's give you a cheat to fix that. Okay, here is a powerful reference chart of emotions that helps us to articulate what we're feeling and name the emotions that come up. Can you see how it might be useful to keep a picture of this on your phone just in case it would. I'll send it to your email. It will be there tomorrow. Okay, simply open the PDF and take a screenshot and favorite that pic in your phone so you can access it quickly when you're doing step one. Lets take a look. On the outside of this diagram we see active feelings and the wheel demonstrates the inner core feeling as you can see as you look at it. For example, overwhelm and stress are on the outside and the deeper core emotion is actually fear or anxiety. In states of overwhelm or anxiety, your body responds by activating a state what is called autonomic arousal. In autonomic arousal, your adrenal glands increase output of a hormone called cortisol which increases your blood sugar so that your cells have fuel to send you into go mode. Your adrenaline rises which increases your heart rate, changes your metabolism so that you can respond to the stressful trigger by going into fight flight. Freeze. Doesn't it make sense why our hearts can beat faster and we can feel hot or even sweaty and panicked. Even though there's no danger, Think for a minute about how your body responds to various intense emotions. When you can learn to tune into reactions like we do in the Anxiety Breakthrough program, you'll become better able to get to the core emotions underneath even faster. For now, this image will help you use the 60 seconds in step one of this hack to identify what you're feeling. Got it. Just name it so we can tame it. Okay, now that you have that, you're ready for step two, let's do it. Remember that step two in the act method is to address the entire cast of characters. We've only got one minute to get through this in the three minute hack, so there's no time to assess hormones or neurochemicals. But what we can accomplish in one minute is to address the cast of characters in a very simple way. Okay, so you're going to reset that timer for one more minute and the next thing you're going to do is answer the question when have I felt like this before? What other times in my life has this strong feeling come up? Once you've got that, shift to asking what meaning did I assign back then? For example, meanings about yourself, others love life, or the way the world is now. Remember, we only have one minute, so this is not time to get stuck in story. This is time for quick labeling of events that you have had, feel the same or very similar. This may require that you give quick nicknames to any past scenes in which emotions have come up again. Seeing this process in action helps. So in the example I just shared about the conflict with Paul, it would look like I felt pissed off, angry and frustrated when I was trying to share my upset with Paul and he didn't fully listen. There was also some resentment since this was not the first time that Paul has bowled over my issues with issues of his own. When I ask myself, when have I felt like this before? When did I have the combination of anger, frustration and resentment? And here are the answers I came up with. I remember feeling these same exact ways often when I was little. Parents brushing off injuries like skinned knees, bumps and bruises. They had no bandwidth to hear about my playground dramas, and my marine father referred to my sensitivity as dumb. When I ask myself, what meanings did I assign back then, here's what I came up Caring figures in my life don't have time or interest in me. Not being seen and heard in all of these situations had me feeling invisible. The meaning that I made in that time was I don't matter to them. Or at the very least, my feelings didn't matter. Can you see how these little or big incidents over time are obvious characters playing into how I felt in that moment? We gave 30 seconds to each of the two questions, and that's a lot of digging in. Less than 60 seconds, right? We might even have a few precious seconds to be with. The idea that these big emotions were probably even more scary in earlier life, especially if any of what we find stems from our childhoods when we were dependent on others in order to survive. Make sense? This is a good segue into step three, so let's cover that now. Get that timer ready because we're going to hit it again. In this last step of the process, you are going to use a tool from the transcend section of the act method called time stamping. Are you ready? While there's a lot of science to why this works, I realize you're looking for a quick fix for now. Then let's suffice it to say that the powerful therapies like emdr, exposure therapy, and ego state use a process called integration, which in simple terms means that we can look at triggers that really rile us up and make a quick switch that lessens the trigger's impact. Does that make sense? You'll learn a lot more about the research behind this method the more you hang out with me. But for now, let's stay on track with our three minute hack. Okay, this time, we're going to set the timer and we're going to do this for one more minute. Start by tapping on one leg and then the other. Alternate the tapping left and right. And that makes the brain more receptive to what you're going to say and less hung up on the big emotion that got you here in the first place. And then I want you to say out loud or in your head to the earlier or previous version of yourself, I acknowledge that you're feeling Insert big emotion here. And I want you to know I hear you, but I also need you to know insert ear. And we are no longer in that situation. I want you to set down this heavy burden and let go of the weight that you've been carrying. It is insert the year. And I've got this. So here's what I said to myself after the episode with Paul. Hey, little Nicole. I acknowledge that you're feeling frustrated and angry and resentful because you feel invisible and like you don't matter. I want you to know I hear you. But I also need you to know it's 2020 and we are no longer in that situation. I want you to set down this heavy burden and let go of the weight that you've been carrying. It's 2020. We're okay and I've got this. Did you notice that since I saw a trigger from childhood, I referred to the upset part of myself as little Nicole? But you might see that you're triggered from a recent relationship or professional circumstance or even an ongoing conflict with your inner dialogue. So name and speak to the upset part in a way that feels right for you. Make sense. You might have a fight with a current lover and discover that the emotions triggered came from some past relationship and say something like, hey, Nicole, who used to date that loser? Bob, I acknowledge that you're feeling insecure and jealous because you feel like you're unlovable and unworthy of a committed partner. I want you to know I hear you, but I also need you to know it's 2020 and we're no longer dating that two timing loser. So I want you to set down this heavy burden and let go of those beliefs you've been carrying around. It's 2020, we're okay, and I've got this. See how you can customize it for the version of you that has the emotional residue and let that go. You'll probably even have time left over to list all of the ways that you're capable of dealing with this now in ways that you might not have been able to in the past. So pile on the confidence, babe. Put that upset part at ease. Are you following? Okay, you ready for a quick and easy recap? Here goes. Set your timer for one minute. Acknowledge how you're feeling unapologetically. Open the floodgates, and without any censoring or excuses for anybody on either side, state all of the feelings coming up. Remember, you'll have that graphic coming by email, so use it if you feel emotionally constipated or so overwhelmed that you can't label your emotions, then hit the timer again for another 60 seconds. Ask yourself the two questions we covered. When have I felt like this before and what meaning did I assign back then? And then set the timer for one more minute and say the full statement. I acknowledge that you're feeling blank and I want you to know I hear you, but I also need you to know it's blank and we are no longer in that situation. I want you to set down this heavy burden and let go of the weight you've been carrying. It is blank and I've got This wouldn't three strong pattern interrupts and a quick brush through some self work offer a band aid of reassurance that you've got this? That's the three minute hack to stop stress and overwhelm and get you back to being composed without popping pills, eating or leaning on some other form of self sabotage. Do you see how this could help you? If you do these three steps instead of blowing up or imploding Babe, you've made progress. You did not self sabotage and you should already be feeling more centered and have your composure back. That's a quick win, right? And way better than losing your cool and making things worse, right? This simple three minute hack is a microchasm of how the ACT method works to alleviate anxiety and sets you up to get and keep momentum towards creating your life by your design. So tell me this. What would be different if you use this process you've learned today? If you took this three minute pause to regain composure in a challenge? Or would you remain more connected, connected to yourself and to others by not lashing out, being more honest and authentic with yourself in the moment, more calm inside and outside for those around you? How would challenges be different if you tried this instead of your normal reactions? If you can see that this simple three minute hack will help you regain composure so you can get better back in the game of life and enjoy far better results than if you lashed out or shut down, then I suspect you're the type of person who would benefit from the ACT method. Tools for navigating life with grace and ease so you can stay in flow and create your life your way. Since I promised at the start of this session that I'd show you how to take this further, I'm going to show you how you can get fast, effective support in mastering the ACT method to send anxiety back backstage and shine as the star in a new life story that you create. Then you can judge for yourself. Okay, now is not the time to invest in years on a clinician's couch, especially since so many of them will suggest medications that numb you and leave the core issues to fester so that they may well become worse when you try to stop taking meds and start the healing. You have the opportunity to replace stress and overwhelm and anxiety with confidence, clarity and happiness. You don't have to spend years on a therapist's couch investing in the slow road to clarity on what's keeping you from the life you want. You don't have to rely on addictive and costly medications. Instead, you have the opportunity to take advantage of my decades of work with clients one on one, walking them through the ACT method and watching as they transform lives of stress and overwhelm and the resulting anxiety into freedom and a far richer, happier experience of daily life. Wouldn't a clear path, a step by step process to give you the tools to get clear on what triggers you and why to acknowledge and release it all so there's no icky emotional residue that triggers you when you least expect it? And doesn't it make sense to have tools from clinical psychology and neuroscience, naturopathic, functional and Eastern medicine to transcend patterns that are keeping you where you are now, like sandbags weighing you down when you know that you're ready for and deserve more? I've stacked the odds so heavily in your favor with a powerful online course that saves you time. I put the course together so that it compacts years of consultation visits into an efficient, way reliable and reproducible model that has proven time and time again to work. Doesn't it make sense to condense this and give it to you straight rather than drag things out session after session? The online format also saves you money. Instead of investing in working one on one in my office or another clinicians, you'll have sessions that you can watch at your pace and you have it all at your fingertips via video 247 and our members only portal and you'll have a supportive community to hold you to your transformation. Doesn't that seem better that it all happens on your terms and from the privacy of your own home? I'm there for you in the open office hours so you'll have access to help if you need it. But there's a not so obvious third benefit in the community. Humans do better with other humans. Research shows that group settings drastically improve results in everything from smoking cessation to weight loss to healing from trauma or even cancer. And I think that's because outside perspective and camaraderie amplify our efforts for the better. Do you know what I mean? In the group setting, it becomes easy to see that humans want to meet the needs of other humans. It's just natural. It's even hardwired into our survival instincts. But until we kick the unconscious patterns that make it hard for others to meet our needs, we can feel alone and isolated and like our feelings don't matter. Wouldn't it be refreshing if we could ditch those disempowering thought patterns and shift our lives and our energy in as little as nine weeks? My commitment is to make your life more rich and pleasurable by acknowledging challenges, understanding the cast of characters, contributing to issues, and providing proven tools pools from clinical psychology, naturopathic and functional medicine and other modalities to transcend our struggles and create lives we love. Wouldn't that make waking up each day more exciting and our days more fulfilling? So that when we put our heads on the pillow each night, we know that we fully gave ourselves what matters most? This 3 minute hack will help you when you're in the need of a quick fix. But what if your anxiety prevents you from living the life you long for? We all know that if we keep doing the same things we've always done, we'll get the same results. If that was enough for you, my guess is that you wouldn't be here right now. Am I right? You're seeking more satisfaction out of day to day life, right? And I'd like to help. Mastering the Act Method with me in the Anxiety Breakthrough nine Week program will arm you with everything you need to live a life story of your own intentional design, free from the default beliefs and painful patterns we aren't even aware of. Before we do this powerful and emotional excavation, there is another way. The three minute Hack I taught you today is a tiny tool from a huge treasure trove of tools that you have access to. When we work together and customize solutions just for you, wouldn't you like all of the tools to create the life you love by intentional design? So many people I've worked with complain of the same old paradigms. The counseling model that promotes weekly time sofa hunting for solutions, or the medical model that provides for a pill for every ill. A colleague once shared with me that he was providing prescription after prescription for a woman complaining of persistent and dependent debilitating anxiety when she broke down at a follow up visit crying about her husband's ongoing affairs. It's insanity to think that there's enough pills to solve that problem. We have to look at the whole picture systematically to understand the links, find the weakest and strengthen them back so that the whole being is strong and clear and can easily attract the happiness and love we all desire and deserve. Do you feel me? People are smart to seek help from doctors and therapists. We all need a little help sometimes, right? But doesn't it also make sense that they complain that it takes way too long to make headway in therapy? They're right to demand more than temporary fixes like medications. Since doses get bigger, the side effects get stronger, and they never actually address the core issues and patterns don't you agree that you deserve a better option. Using the ACT method, we can shine the spotlight on the core issues and the resulting patterns that are creating the negative drama in your life story. Can you see that a completely different paradigm is available to you? Just like the tool you learned today, the ACT method is all about empowering you to have quick access to feeling calm and composed and in your mind and body. But even more importantly, it exposes the unconscious storylines that underlie many of the thoughts and beliefs that have us feeling triggered in the first place. How cool is that? We could actually learn and understand what gets us riled up and lands us in stress, overwhelm and anxiety. That's when you'll need even more tools to overcome and be the writer of your life story. Your way. When potentially anxiety provoking situations are looming in the wings, can you see that your ability to recognize these emotions quickly, receive them as powerful messages from your body, and then course correct using that primal guidance system is your VIP access to grace and flow in life, no matter what. One thing I need to be sure you understand is the proven relationship between stress and overwhelm and and what's clinically considered anxiety. So why don't we bring you up to speed now? Your body is designed to deal with stress, but the more stress you experience, the more its effects accumulate in your mind and body. Think about it this way. We all start with a barrel and it fills over time with each stressor we experience. So what might have felt overwhelming and annoying at worst years ago may be causing panic now. But did you know that your body doesn't discriminate between good stress and bad stress? As far as your nervous system is concerned, a tiger is a tiger is a tiger. Make sense? If we're not removing stress at the same rate as it's coming in, that barrel would begin to overfill and you will begin to experience more severe symptoms. This three minute hack is designed to help you stop stress in its tracks and begin the process of emptying your barrel. Which has worked so well with my consultees nationwide that we have gotten results like this. Annie finally feels capable of overcoming obstacles. A radical shift from the hot mess she was when we started. Now she's thriving in her career, her romance and her personal care. Ashley hasn't had a single panic attack. After years of them holding her back from making the massive contributions she now makes in her community. All of the energy she wasted being fearful of another panic attack hitting is now going to a much better cause of supporting underprivileged youth. In finding their passions. And Brittany. Brittany and her well meaning doctor had never looked at how her emotions were impacting her stomach pain and gut issues. She leaned heavily into affective tolerance skills that you'll master in the ACT method to get her anxiety under control. And voila. Her digestion is now better than ever. Makes sense, right? She's not twisting in her guts and knots in residual feelings and patterns. Babes, your brain is extremely powerful and the ACT method helps you harness that power to write a new story. And and you'll be inspired and excited to live whatever your normal mode is, whatever patterns or reactions you use now, the science says you can break out of those habits. Need an example that shows you the extreme power of our brains? Patients with a diagnosis called Dissociative Identity Disorder or multiple personality Disorder experience two or more distinctly different personality states or identities. According to the national alliance of Mental Health, as the person switches between personalities, they may change from being right handed to left handed. One personality has food allergies and the others don't. And some personalities may have diabetes, while others have totally normal insulin and sugar control. All of these radical changes occur due to rapid changes in their brain state. While those warriors are at the mercy of the changes due to their condition. Wouldn't you love to intentionally mold and shape your life experience by changing your brain using the tools that you'll master? When we work together, you can learn to harness this power in your own life. It's no secret. Neuroscientists have long known that we can intentionally change the functional circuitry of the human brain. We do this by updating your software, which is how you use your brain. And your brain will then naturally start to follow suit. By changing its hardware, the actual structure of your brain, it becomes rewired as new neural pathways replace old ones to form a new intentionally created version of you. You'll start rewiring your brain with what I've given you in our short time together today. Before doing this class today, I was faced with two choices. The first is I could share this three minute hack for starting to rewire your brain and part ways with you, hoping that on your own you can make a go of it and be successful. Or my second option is that I could take more of an active role and responsibility for your success to create a way for our relationship to evolve from a one and done thing to an ongoing, growing, mutually beneficial relationship. One where I would do everything I could to help you win. I choose the second option and when you see what I have for you I think you'll be glad I did. And it is with great pleasure that I invite you to the nine week Anxiety Breakthrough program. An efficient, effective way to rewire your brain and send anxiety backstage without addictive medications, without overspending and without overspending on testing and over investing time on a clinician's couch. What if I told you that you can have the skill set and confidence to always be able to handle anything that triggers you? Would that be of interest to you? Would it matter if I also clarified that I won't settle for anything less than you mastering that skill set? Because it's unrealistic to think that we won't deal with tough stuff in life giving you step by step support and the skill set and confidence to shine in the starring role of your life. That's what I'm committed to. How about you? The Anxiety Breakthrough program is ready for you. So you can go through the preparations and dive in starting right now. Anxiety thrives when we're in overwhelm. So doesn't it make sense that we prevent overwhelm by breaking our work into nine one week sessions? That gives you time for understanding and absorbing new ideas along with support for implementation. There is strong neuroscience behind doing the program this way. But for now let it suffice it to say that what we learn doesn't do squat in our lives unless we have the implementation strategies that drastically raise the quality of our daily rides. There is strong neuroscience behind doing the program this way, but for now let's suffice it to say that what we learn doesn't do squat for our lives unless we have the implementation strategies that drastically raise the quality of our daily lives. Am I right? Anxiety wins when we're confused. And so that's why we'll develop clarity about which symptoms hail from conscious and unconscious thought patterns and beliefs and which symptoms originate from cast of characters like our hormones. The gut brain access our gut health since this is where the neurochemicals that control our moods are created as well as our genetics. Not as an excuse to be resolved upon so that we can lean into emerging data from epigenetics to turn off and on gene expression. And anxiety can leave us crushed under the weight and stigma. So let's empower ourselves with a whole toolbox of techniques, strategies and processes that we can rely on from everything from day to day management of symptoms to even the most panic inducing moments. And anxiety abhors steadiness and structure. So we're going to use something called the 5F Life Design System. To write your new story, one that you design with intention. Just this one process has worked miracles with my clients and and I truly believe it was harder for some of them to pull off this without the luxury of community, without the camaraderie and partnership of having peers to bounce their efforts off of and get feedback and share ideas and inspiration. What your participation in the Anxiety Breakthrough program means for you is freedom. Freedom from the gravity that anxiety has to hold us down. After spending the last 10 years combining the best aspects from my master's in clinical psychology with the holistic practices I've mastered as a naturopathic doctor to send anxiety backstage for my clients, I'm here to bring my A game to end anxiety for the warriors who are ready for a far more cost effective way to tackle the challenges of anxiety than traditional pathways that can involve years of therapy and treatment. And you know what? This whole program costs less than half of a visit with me in my clinic. This offers an alternative to the expensive and often addictive medications that don't even touch the root cause and huge savings on testing treatments supplements because the first six modules gives us the opportunity to see how much we can actually affect anxiety without all of that added expense and effort. After those six modules we'll have narrowed down and honed in on any problems that remain and any testing needed will be crystal clear. Are you ready to play full out and bring your A game to put anxiety back in its rightful place as a warning system instead of the dominating force in your life? Can you see how this is your opportunity to create your happily ever after with the ACT method? Let's look at everything you'll get for the investment in the program and show you how it's totally risk free for only $195 less than half of the price. In a visit in one of my clinics you'll get clarity on the stories that are playing in the background affecting decisions, productivity and how connected you let yourself be with others in all realms of your life. All of the care I can cram into our nine group sessions with which will focus on mastering the nine elements in the ACT method group coaching in the live Open Office hour sessions which focuses on real life application customizations in our private Facebook group and confidence that you've got 24. 7 Access to the anxiety Breakthrough modules and exercises in our members only site and community thanks to our private Facebook group. And this is also where you can private message me and my team so that we can help you if you ever feel stuck. Stuck Since I've only Seen a few things get in the way of clearing any remaining hurdles to anxiety freedom. I've added three powerful bonuses in case you need them. Would you like to see what they are? You're gonna get the gut psychology mastery course $77 value. I've included this mastery course because diet plays a crucial role in mental health. Why is that? Because so many components of our hormones and neurochemicals which act as chemical messengers are made in our gut lining. Low quality chemical messengers fail at communicating efficiently between your brain and body. And this course helps you fix that. Will this help you? And then we have the Medication Tapering Mastery Course which sells for $297. In case you're on medications now. This course will give you support on transitioning slowly and safely using a tapering process. The horror stories about medications range from mild to debilitating side effects and from psychological to chemical dependence. Would it support your journey to have access to this powerful course as a bonus gift when you join the Anxiety Breakthrough program? High Libido Life Mastery Course, which adds an additional $177 value. The impact of anxiety often extends to our sex lives. Can you relate? That's why I've included this course as a bonus. There are two major reasons. First, because you deserve to have your libido back. If you've lost it, can I get a hallelujah? And second, a healthy sex life helps balance hormones, increases confidence, deepens connection, and it's a whole lot of fun. Are you following me? We all deserve a healthy sex life, right? So for this special one time offer, you're gonna get nine group sessions which will focus on mastering the nine elements of the ACT method. Open office hours every two weeks. These are implementation sessions which focus on real life application customizations for your unique needs. In our private Facebook group 24. 7 access to the anxiety Breakthrough modules and exercises in our members only site and our powerful Anxiety warrior community inside the private Facebook group. Again, this is also where you can private message us for extra support. Plus you'll get the gut psychology mastery course, a $77 value. The medication tapering mastery course, which sells for $297. The high libido life mastery course, $177 value. And this summer we invited two groups to do this material and they invested $1,297 each to do the program. Live with me. You'll get all of this transformative program plus the bonuses, which is priceless. But even if you just add the course and the bonuses, that's a value of$746 for only1.95. Wouldn't you agree that day to day happiness and the peace that comes with living a life to the fullest, plus being connected and confident that all of that is worth far more than this investment of $195, you'll get all of this for less than half the cost of a single session in my office. When you compare that to the cost of not getting the life the way you want it, this investment in yourself becomes clearly as worth it as you are. Wouldn't a highly engaging, deeply connected way of getting the support to rewire your story feel so good right now in these crazy times? This is your opportunity to put anxiety in the past and shine in your life story. And remember I mentioned it's risk free. I'll tell you how that works in just a moment, but first I want to tell you a quick story before we wrap up today. I want you to know about Elise. Elise has been talking about change since I first met her at a conference I was speaking at in Tucson, Arizona almost nine years ago. She stayed in touch, she's taken free classes like this one and she follows my videos on Facebook and YouTube. And I'd like to say that things have changed for sweet Elise, but she's still stuck in the same pit of stress, overwhelm and anxiety. She readily admits that the fear of trying, the fear of the unknown, and even her stubborn complacency have kept her in a downward spiral where the gravity of her situation makes it even harder to venture out and try new solutions. Can you relate to this kind of negative spiral that gets harder and harder to break free from? I just got word from her that she's 100 pounds heavier and on an additional handful of medications every day and her only regret is not taking action when we first met. Whatever you do, loves don't stay stuck like Elise. Whether you work with me on the nine week journey together or you find your own unique path to anxiety freedom, Find a way. Can we just agree right now that you deserve it? I want to acknowledge that nine weeks can sound intimidating, but there's solid science based reasons for this timeline I'm putting us on in the Anxiety Breakthrough program. It has to do with the amount of time it takes to build new neural networks in your beautiful brain. Does that make sense? We need this much time together to rewire your brain to create new neural networks that set you up for a life that you deserve. One free of constant overwhelm, stress and anxiety. Have you heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. You don't have to do that. Can you see that this is your opportunity to shine like the star in your life? Can you think of any reason not to do this since you have an action taker's guarantee? This guarantee removes all all risk from trying to break free from the endless cycle of anxious thoughts. Shouldn't you have the chance to experience a life where anxiety isn't running the show? Remember that you've got my full commitment to your success along with a full action takers guarantee that says if you follow the steps and do your part and don't move towards a life where anxiety isn't the central focus, then you get a full 100% refund. No benefit to you, no payment to me or my team. Are you following me? This means that if you do your part, we'll do ours and together we'll kick anxiety to the curb. That's my mission. I'm here to help you win. Are you willing to get on the field and be coachable and play full out to get what you want? You can be free from anxiety. You can feel that possibility deep down. Your true self knows that overwhelm and stress and anxiety are not your natural state. This three minute hack is one small tool in a giant toolbox full of powerful tools for change. Are you ready to break through anxiety with me and your fellow Anxiety Freedom warriors? Join the program by going to www.goend anxiety now or simply click the big yellow button on this page to get started so we can start working together to create your happily ever after. Thank you so much for joining me. I trust you'll get tons of use out of the three minute hack to end stress and overwhelm and regain composure without self sabotaging. I look forward to empowering you with even more powerful tools once we get deep into the act method. If you take this opportunity, I look forward to working with you. I'll see you soon. Hey loves, if you're anything like me, you want results like yesterday and you're eagerly anticipating solutions that you can start putting into play now. So I have created a fast acting bundle called Calm on Command, introducing a new fast acting symptom suppressing combination of supplements that also reduces the likelihood of future episodes once it's established in the body. Over six weeks, Calm on Command will stop heart palpitations, relieve restlessness, ease persistent, persistent nagging, repetitive and intrusive thought patterns without slowing down your brain function. No fogginess or low energy feelings reducing stress quickly is my goal for you, and I have scoured the market for solutions that will help you get back to your life quickly and without all of the habit forming and sedating side effects commonly found in the pill. For an L model, if you like to seriously ramp up your resources, whether it be sending anxiety backstage, reigniting your fire, or even to catapult you into some seriously awesome healing, the link for calm on command is in the show notes, so check it out right away. Hey everyone, thanks for listening. This has been Dr. Nicole Cain. If you love what you're hearing and are eager for more, please hit the subscribe button. It helps me know that what we're doing is valuable for you. I'd love to meet you and learn more about how I can support you in getting your life back. And now for the disclaimer.

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