Choose Well-Being: Ways To Stop Anxiety

Wellbeing is for everyone. You don't have to wait until things are better before you can live the quality life you want to enjoy.

Tanya J. Peterson has created the brand Wellbeing & Words to empower people to make their own wellbeing. She tells stories, through novels, of regular people struggling with mental health challenges. She also writes self-help books to guide people through the process of reclaiming wellbeing. I write the HealthyPlace anxiety-schmanxiety column, newsletter, and many other articles on their website.

Everything Tanya does relates to empowering people to enhance their mental health and wellbeing and enjoy their lives.

Valeria Teles interviews Tanya J. Peterson about her book 101 Ways To Stop Anxiety: Practical Exercises to Find Peace and Free Yourself from Fears, Phobias, Panic Attacks, and Freak-Outs.

Anxiety is a snare, a suffocating and confining trap. Anxiety, worry, and fear usurp your thoughts and emotions and dictate your actions. When this happens, people often feel as though their lives are severely limited.

Whether you are feeling severely limited or some what limited due to anxiety, this episode might help you move right through your anxiety, past it, and onward to the life you desire. Forward movement is at the heart of Tanya J Peterson's work.

Drawing from her previous experience as a teacher and board-certified counselor as well as from personal experience, Tanya J. Peterson, MS, NCC writes books and articles to help people empower themselves to both reduce obstacles like anxiety and move forward despite them to create a quality life. Her books include 101 Ways to Stop Anxiety: Practical Ways to Find Peace; The Mindfulness Workbook for Anxiety: The 8-Week Solution to Help You Manage Anxiety, Worry & Stress; The 5-Minute Anxiety Journal: A Creative Way to Stop Freaking Out; The Mindfulness Journal for Anxiety, and Break Free: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in 3 Steps. She written several mental health-themed novels as well. Tanya also writes extensively for the mental health website HealthyPlace.com, including the weekly Anxiety-Schmanxiety blog, has posts on The Mighty, and is a regular contributor to the website ChoosingTherapy.

To learn more about Tanya J. Peterson, please visit her website http://www.tanyajpeterson.com/

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** Bio intro and outro one by Heidi Lynn Peters.