Anxiety Must Be Treated As A Physical Condition First

— "Anxiety is insidious because it fools you into believing that there is something wrong with you mentally or emotionally, and that is what causes the problem. Think of something that is insidious as having the ability to hide either what is causing your problem, or something that is necessary for you to understand it. This is exactly what happens when the anxiety takes over your life. That insidious part of this infuriating internal nemesis is that, even though you can feel it ravaging your body, you misinterpret its driving force as something that is created in your brain. It is so important to monitor what the rest of your body is doing to fully understand both the cause of this condition, and the route you must take to return to health and peace." - Faust

Valeria interviews Faust Ruggiero — He is the author of "The Fix Yourself Handbook: Using the Process Way of Life to Transform Your Life into a Happy, Healthy Journey and The Fix Your Anxiety Handbook: Bringing You Out of the Darkness and into a Brilliant New World."

Faust Ruggiero is a published research author, clinical trainer, and a therapist who has worked in settings that have included clinics for deaf children, prisons, nursing homes, substance abuse centers, inpatient facilities, and major corporations, both national and international. He is the president of the Community Psychological Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. He was part of a team that developed the counseling program for drunk drivers that became the prototype for the state of Pennsylvania and is still being used in many other states. He continues to provide counseling services for individuals, couples, families, veterans, first responders, law enforcement, and other emergency personnel. He has taught at the college level and is published in several research journals.

He has been in private practice at the Community Psychological Center, in Bangor, Pennsylvania, for more than thirty years, specializing in individual, family, substance abuse, women's issues, and marital/couples counseling. During that time, he developed the Process Way of Life and has used it with over 2,000 of his clients, helping them to realize and unleash the power they have inside themselves. With the Process Way of Life being so successful as a counseling program, Mr. Ruggiero decided to develop the process-based journey into a written text.

The approach underwent several years of research and program design so that it could effectively be communicated in written form. The goal is to help people understand how to present their problems in a way that helps them understand them. His program, then, provides people with the exact steps to fix those problems. The Process Way of Life is presented in The Fix Yourself Handbook, published in 2019. The book has received literary awards from Literary Titan, The Nonfiction Writer's Association, and IndieReader. Mr. Ruggiero has appeared on television, radio shows, and podcasts, nationally and internationally, to discuss the Process Way of Life presented in The Fix Yourself Handbook. His radio show—Fix It With Faust—debuted in June 2021, and The Fix Your Anxiety Handbook, the second installment of The Fix Yourself Empowerment Series.

To learn more about Faust Ruggiero and his work, please visit: faustruggiero.com

— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.