Welcome To The Anxiety Support Summit

25 HEALTH EXPERTS TO HELP YOU BEAT ANXIETY

With a focus on anxiety and mental health, in this interview series, you will find a mouthwatering lineup of incredible guests covering all aspects of health from nutrition to breath, mindset to fitness, relationships to trauma, and everything in between. All the while relating to anxiety with a focus on recovery.

We curated this event to equip you with the required tools, knowledge, and mindset you need to overcome your struggles and get your anxiety working for you instead of against you — tools you can put into action today to get out there and start living your best life tomorrow.

Watch Below for Free

Testimonials

“It’s given me a “shit load” of knowledge, entertainment, and strategies to begin the journey of accepting, living, and dealing with anxiety. You have given me hope, inspiration, and courage, at the exact right time in my life, to befriend my anxiety, to tackle my anxiety, and to be a better form of me before I let it consume my life for years. This summit has been an absolute gift!” ~ Éadaoin

“I can honestly say this has completely changed the way I think about my anxiety. Such amazing speakers and I have taken so much from it. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so so much.” ~ Lauren

“Great series. Candid open and unique speakers – was very encouraging. Thank you for putting this together with so much heart and commitment.” ~ Susanne

“I really appreciate the time you spent putting this summit together Nicky. It was great to see the raw talk from everyone instead of just hearing the doctor’s versions of anxiety. You also had a great variety of speakers so we could find the ones that applied the most to us.” ~ Joanie

“Just finished watching Dr Kuttner’s talk. What an amazing explanation of what is going on physiologically. I’ve known for a while there is a psychological component to my pain, but this explains it on a whole other level I’ve never understood. And this just made so much sense. A penny definitely dropped.” ~ Lewis

“Thanks so much for organizing this event. So thoughtfully curated. My daughter (16) experiences extreme challenges with her anxiety and so many of these speakers have shifted my perspective and created enough space for me to have more of an optimistic swing in my hip (is that a thing), as we navigate Covid after a year of her being agoraphobic?! Crazy times.” ~ Rebecca

Introducing Our Speakers & Topics Covered

Proper management of anxiety requires a hybrid approach, focusing on the connection between the mind and the body. You must attack it from all angles, which is why we worked tirelessly to bring you experts, authors, and those with real-life experience together to share with you a wealth of wisdom. All to ensure it will have a profoundly positive impact on your life.

From trauma to relationships, pain management to resilience, connection and compassion, self-love to self-sabotage, social anxiety to addiction. Communication, breath, and parenting. And everything in between.

You name it. They’ve covered it.

"The Four Sacred Secrets" with Preethaji

Preethaji and her partner, Krishnaji have helped millions around the world achieve love, prosperity, and purpose through the power of the beautiful state. Her TEDx talk, “How to end stress, unhappiness and anxiety to live in a beautiful state” has over 2.5 million views. And for good reason — it is absolute GOLD.

She is also co-author of the national best-selling book, The Four Sacred Secrets: For Love and Prosperity, A Guide to Living in a Beautiful State. The book offers a life-altering adventure that has inspired a movement towards emotional and personal prosperity.

Throughout this interview, Preethaji will blow you away with her wisdom.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ Understanding our two states: suffering or beautiful

✓ What is suffering and how do we move out of it to cultivate a beautiful state?

✓ Why all suffering is a preoccupation with oneself

✓ Why we are wired for suffering

✓ The importance of cleansing one’s soul of the past

✓ Forming greater connection

✓ Simple daily practices to help cultivate greater awareness and appreciation to move into a beautiful state

✓ Universal laws and the Four Sacred Secrets

“Self-Compassion” with Tim Desmond

Tim Desmond is a psychotherapist, author, Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Antioch University New England, and student of Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh. He is the author of three brilliant books — Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy, The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook, and How to Stay Human in a Fucked Up World.

Tim is also co-founder of the Morning Sun Mindfulness Center and is well known for his teachings of mindfulness and self-compassion practices to audiences around the world.

For anyone struggling with mental health, research shows that self-compassion is not only a skill we can strengthen through practice, but also one of the strongest predictors of mental health and wellness.

Tim is a master on how mindfulness-based self-compassion practices can help you find greater health, peace, emotional stability, and joy in your life.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ The importance of practice when you feel safe

✓ The importance of building your self-compassion muscle

✓ The power in sitting with your anxiety and opening up a dialogue with it

✓ An introduction to Buddhism & Mindfulness

✓ Understanding that receiving and giving compassion is a skill and that many you turn to won't have it, so as not to take it as a rejection

✓ How to cultivate greater self-compassion and awareness

✓ How to overcome the fear of facing your anxiety and doing the work

"Understanding Attachment Styles for Regulating Anxiety" with Thais Gibson

Thais Gibson is a personal development expert, author, and teacher who has worked with thousands of clients across the globe to help them transform their life, relationships, and overcome substantial challenges. She is certified in over 13 different therapeutic techniques, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Neuro-linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, Somatic Experiencing, and more.

She has also created and tested cutting-edge approaches to healing all areas of your life that are truly long-lasting and results-oriented because she recognizes that for real change to exist, it must take place at the subconscious level.

In this interview, Thais goes into great detail on Attachment Styles and regulating anxiety.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ What are attachment styles?

✓ The different attachments styles and how they are likely to impact us

✓ Vulnerability, enmeshment, co-dependency, and boundaries

✓ The role of anxiety and how it shows up for different attachment styles

✓ How our attachment styles are formed in childhood and can be impacted further through trauma in later life

✓ How to move towards secure attachment

"Understanding Sydney Banks Three principles" with Sarie Taylor

Sarie Taylor is a psychotherapist specialising in anxiety. Sarie herself suffered from severe anxiety for many years to the extent she was hospitalised for a month. And it was after this life-changing experience, that Sarie went on a journey of healing for the next ten years which eventually led her to a realisation that her suffering was mainly due to a complete misunderstanding about how human nature worked.

It was her exploration and understanding of the 3 principles (originally talked about by Sydney Banks), which completely changed her life.

Throughout this interview, Sarie shares a wealth of wisdom and practical tips to help anyone struggling with anxiety begin to start living their best life.

"The Anxiety Epidemic" with Professor Graham Davey

Graham Davey is the emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex whose research interests extend across mental health problems, specifically anxiety and worry. 

Professor Davy is a former president of the British Psychological Society and is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology which publishes cutting-edge research on anxiety and anxiety-related problems.

He is also author of a fantastic book, "The Anxiety Epidemic: The Causes of our Modern-Day Anxieties."

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ Understanding pathological worrying

✓ The difference between anxiety and an anxiety disorder

✓ The numbers experiencing these disorders

✓ An explanation of the different anxiety disorders and how they differ

✓ Why so many don't get help

✓ The anxiety epidemic and what the data is telling us during the pandemic

✓ Tips to best protect yourself and manage anxiety better

“The Five Fundamentals For Anxiety Recovery” with Nicky Cullen

Blindsided by a panic attack at age 20, Nicky spiralled into the deep dark world of anxiety and depression, which consumed him for 13 years.

Following that, as he finally began to understand, accept, and manage his anxiety, he set up this No BS blog to help others by offering the type of support and practical advice he wished he would have found all those years ago.

His blog, nickycllen.com, was recently awarded by Healthline as one of the top anxiety blogs for 2020. And as host of this summit, it was time for one of our guests to drill him with some questions!

"Get Out of My Head: Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious World” with Meredith Arthur

Meredith was an early pioneer of "getting people to talk about mental health in a normal way," when she created Beautiful Voyager in 2015 for overthinkers, perfectionists, and people pleasers.

She also runs Invisible Illness, which is the largest mental health publication on Medium. And recently published her brilliant new book, Get Out of My Head: Inspiration for Overthinkers in an Anxious World.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ Perfectionism and how best to manage it

✓ The power of understanding

✓ Turning a vicious cycle into a virtuous one

✓ How by helping others you can help yourself

✓ Letting go of the need to people please

✓ Meredith’s hilarious catchphrases to help remind yourself to take better care of your mental health

“Understanding Self-Love” with Melissa Wells

Bestselling Hay House Author, Worldwide Speaker, and the UK’s leading Eating Psychology Coach and Self Love Expert, dedicated to helping you completely transform the relationship you have with yourself, your body and your food – so you can truly start grabbing your life by the balls, instead of feeling like you’re on hold because of your body, or your battles with food.

"Screw Being Shy" with Mark Metry

Just a few short years ago, Mark was dealing with severe social anxiety that had crippled him his entire teenage years. He is now a speaker, host of the Global Top 100 Humans 2.0 Podcast, and bestselling author of Screw Being Shy: Learn How to Manage Social Anxiety and Be Yourself in Front of Anyone.

During this talk, we go deep on social anxiety while delving into Mark’s story and uncovering a plethora of tools and behavioural tweaks once can make to transform their social anxiety.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ Nutrition, and the role our gut microbiome plays in good mental health

✓ Addressing the root cause

✓ How to channel your anxious energy into something good

✓ Using your adversity to propel you forward in life

✓ Exposure therapy

“The Importance of Asserting Boundaries” with Jord Cuiper

Jord is a life-long student of human nature, who specializes in helping entrepreneurs to evolve out of suppressed subconscious patterns to becoming more self-aware, rational, fulfilled and wholehearted human beings.

From a young age, Jord had an infinite drive to live life to its fullest and to do things differently. This drive ensured he was a high-performer in both sports and business, which ultimately saw him as a finalist for the best start-up entrepreneur in the Netherlands.

But as with life, it doesn't always throw you lemons. The highs were met with significant lows, which changed everything for Jord, and ultimately led him on a new journey where he now dedicates his life to helping others find meaning and happiness in theirs.

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ Boundaries (learning to say NO)

✓ People pleasing

✓ Understanding our human needs

✓ Understanding values

✓ Vulnerability

✓ Connection

“The Gifts of Grief” with Jonny Miller

Jonny Miller has a stacked resume that includes a powerful Ted X talk on the Gifts of Grief. In his talk, based on personal experience and heartbreak, he touched on the taboos surrounding death, and mental health, as well as how a radical curiosity helped him process.

For anyone struggling with grief, you stand to gain so much from hearing Jonny's personal story and insights. Jonny is also an emotional resilience researcher and founder of the curious human's academy

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ Grief and how he dealt with the loss of his fiance.

✓ The power of leaning into pain and steps to take towards it

✓ Emotional resilience and how to build it

✓ The power of curiosity

✓ The power of plant medicines

✓ How breathwork can help heal trauma

✓ Journalling to understand yourself and develop self-awareness

“Overcoming the Fear of Not Being Enough” with Jillian Turecki

Jillian Turecki is a NYC based certified relationship coach, yoga teacher and writer who for 20 years, has been studying the body and the mind.

Fueled by an insatiable curiosity about what makes a relationship thrive, Jillian has helped thousands through her teachings and writing revolutionize their relationship with themselves so that they can transform their love lives.

Jillian is sought out for her compassionate, direct, and very authentic style of coaching and teaching. Under the tutelage of Tony Robbins and world renowned family therapist, Cloe Madanes, Jillian is certified by the Robbins Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention, a renowned coaching program known for its innovative strategic solutions to the most difficult relationship problems.

With her approach rooted in physiology, psychology, and the neuroscience of emotions, you stand to gain an awful lot from her incredible insights and wisdom on this all-important subject. Man or woman. Single or in a relationship.

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ How to be a better communicate your needs

✓ Vulnerability

✓ Owning your stuff, and taking responsibility for any work you need to do

✓ Communication in a relationship

✓ Attachment theories

✓ The relationship with oneself

✓ How to be more compassionate with yourself and your partner

✓ The biggest drivers of anxiety in a relationship

✓ Having difficult conversations around your mental health with a partner

✓ Listening to and trusting your intuition. But not when you are in a high state of emotion.

✓ Trust issues. And how it all starts with learning to trust yourself

✓ The habitual patterns of anxiety

✓ The extreme measures we go to achieve certainty

✓ The need to feel safe in our relationships

“Redefining Your Thoughts” with James Abbott

James had his own run-in and personal battle with anxiety, which he managed to break free from having come across some powerful methodologies of acceptance and understanding which removed all power from his anxiety.

And it was with this newfound wisdom that he felt compelled to become a wellness coach where he now works with anxiety sufferers to help them change how they view their anxiety, and in doing so, completely alter their life for the better

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

In this chat, we dive into James story, while uncovering the thoughts that were causing his anxiety and how he was able to alter them to completely change his reality. With lots of great metaphors throughout.

“Permission to be Human” with Jacci Jones

Jacci is a psychotherapist who specialises in helping families, parents, and individuals better understand how their thoughts impact their reality, and in doing so, helps change those thoughts to create a better reality.

With over 30 years of experience in helping people, Jacci had tremendous wisdom to share to help anyone struggling better manage their anxiety.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ Understanding how our thoughts shape our reality and how we can better manage this through curiosity

✓ The power of not fighting, but instead, befriending anxiety

✓ Achieving a greater level of acceptance and understanding that anxiety is not something you can get rid of, but rather better manage

✓ Parenting and how to better communicate our feelings

✓ Allowing yourself to be human

“The Cost of Perfection” with Hana Jung

Hana lived the high life in NYC for ten years where she successfully climbed the corporate ladder before succumbing to serious burnout which led to her hospitalisation and ultimately making the courageous decision to quit the corporate world and set sail into the unknown.

As recovering perfectionist, much of Hana's work is deeply rooted in personal development and helping others to get out of their own way to start living both a fun and fulfilled life — emphasis on fun!

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ The tools Hana both uses and teaches to overcome fear

✓ Making tough decisions that go against that which is expected of you

✓ Perfectionism and how to better manage it

✓ Creating and using experiments to play with rejection and fear to tease it out as opposed to avoiding it

✓ The downside of the personal development industry and red flags to look out for

“Your Spiritual Uprising" with Engel Pherecydes

Engel is a true master of his craft which is deeply rooted in pranayama breathing, yoga, and spirituality based on ancient traditions and philosophies.

Having dedicated his life to the transformative studies of Pranayama and the traditional teachings of yoga, Engel is a source of inspiration and support for many people around the world, modelling the importance of learning to understand the mind and how to use it for your spiritual prosperity.

This talk is an absolute must where Engel unravels and simplifies many difficult topics that are often a source of anxiety while sharing alternative views, beliefs, and practices we can easily adapt to greatly reduce anxiety and ensure we have a more positive outlook moving forward.

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ Taking control of your environment

✓ Martial arts and how it can help develop discipline and honour

✓ Choosing to use your suffering as a catalyst for growth and the words we decide to personalise and incorporate into our lives

✓ Judgment

✓ Using breath as a tool to manage emotions that negatively impact us such as anger

✓ Identifying your belief system and personal philosophies to create awareness for change while inviting more compassion, love, and gratitude into your life

✓ Developing a breathwork practice to use as a catalyst for spirituality, but understanding breath is a tool to create space to address deeper issues

“Regulating Your Nervous System Through Breathwork” with Edward Dangerfield

Edward Dangerfield is a nervous system specialist helping people heal trauma using breathwork and bodywork. 

Having been caught in an avalanche, and suffering from PTSD, Edward immersed himself in studies and healing and subsequently went on the help others clear past trauma through the breath.

Edward is trained in Nervous System Health, Chinese Massage & Pressure Points, Breathwork, Nerve Flossing, Qi Gong, Biofield Energy Healing, Yoga and Meditation. And is constantly studying modern approaches to anatomy, physiology, neuroscience and developmental patterns.

He is extremely passionate about using breathwork and movement to heal the nervous system, based on his own lived experience, research, training and years of clinical practice.

In this interview, Edward delivers tremendous wisdom while making it extremely digestible.

“Unravelling Trauma" with Dr. Reshie Suresh Joseph​

Dr Reshie Joseph specialises in the treatment of PTSD, Complex Psychological Trauma, Addictions and other Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS)

Complex Psychological Trauma is massively misunderstood and — unfortunately — goes largely undiagnosed with catastrophic consequences.

And it is absolutely imperative that it's addressed and discussed because we need to gain a greater understanding and bring it to people's attention, so if it is something you deal with or something you think you might deal with, you can get out there and find an expert who is qualified and trained to help you better navigate through it, so you can begin to recover and enjoy a quality of life once again

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ What is complex psychological trauma and PTSD

✓ Addiction

✓ How is trauma and PTSD diagnosed

✓ Some of the different ways one can inherit these conditions

✓ The role environment plays

✓ How it is best treated (the four stages) and what you can do to help yourself today, even if you can’t afford help

“Love In, Love Out: A Compassionate Approach to Parenting Your Anxious Child” with Dr Malie Coyne

Dr Malie Coyne is one of Ireland's leading Clinical Psychologists with over 20 years experience working with children, teenagers and their families. She is also author of the brilliant new book, “Love in Love out: A compassionate approach to parenting your anxious child.”

This is an extremely tough topic to tackle. And one that is vitally important. And while every parent only wants the best for their child, the reality is, parenting doesn't come with an instruction manual.

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

In this conversation, we discuss Dr Coyne’s new book as well the many practical tips she offers parents to not only help their children, but also help themselves, and in doing so, create a happier, less stressful, and compassionate home environment.

"Better Understand Anxiety to Treat Your Pain" with Dr Jonathan Kuttner

Dr Jonathan Kuttner specialises in the treatment of chronic joint and muscle pain.

As many know, anxiety can be an EXTREMELY painful journey. It seems pain and anxiety go hand in hand. And not just emotional pain. Physical pain. This often creates a vicious cycle which perpetuates both the anxiety and pain.

Dr Kuttner himself experienced chronic pain for years after a near-fatal accident and is a testament to anybody struggling with chronic pain in their life that indeed there is life after pain.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ The reptilian brain (and the two protective mechanisms coming from it – one for anxiety, one for pain.)

✓ How they end up going faulty and basically feeding our body with spam

✓ The importance of diaphragmatic breathing

✓ How to better understand and treat your pain

✓ Trigger points: what they are and how best to treat them

"The Art of Connection" with Devon O'Brien Ash

Relationships can be tough. Making friends isn't always easy. Finding a partner isn't always easy. Building connection isn't always easy. In fact, for most, it's hard. And often, when dealing with anxiety, it can feel damn right impossible.

Human beings long for connection. And if you don't have the confidence to put yourself out there and start making connections, it can wreak havoc on your mental health.

Devon has dedicated his life to understanding the science of human attraction, connection, and relationships.

This conversation is loaded with so much wisdom and practical advice that can help anyone improve how they show up on a day to day basis in their relationships—whether platonic, business or romantic.

A taste of what you’ll learn from this interview:

✓ Our belief system and how it is governed by our behaviours

✓ Boundaries

✓ Body language

✓ Our physiology and how it directly impacts our psychology

✓ The concept of fake it until you feel it

✓ The power of eye contact

✓ Practical tips to become a better conversationalist

"The Heroine's Journey " with Conni Biesalski

Conni is a writer, YouTuber, photographer and entrepreneur on a mission to help others explore themselves deeply, overcome inner blocks and share their creative gifts with the world. She is passionate about mindfulness, breathwork, plant medicine, psychology, philosophy and the creative process.

Many years of depression, anxiety and chronic pain motivated her to experiment with endless healing modalities and learn from a variety of teachers all around the world.

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ How Conni manages her own mental health.

✓ The importance of living your truth

✓ Spirituality

✓ Mindfulness

✓ Buddhism

✓ Minimalism

✓ Creativity

✓ Journalling

✓ Plant medicines

✓ How contributing to others can help you heal

✓ Shadows

✓ Money is not the answer

“Bonus Time: A tale of Incredible Transformation” with Brian Pennie

Brian Pennie shares an incredible tale of anxiety, addiction, and transformation. Unable to escape the pain of anxiety and desperately seeking relief, Brian turned to heroin which saw him fall into a 15-year addiction that nearly — and probably should have — taken his life.

Until one fateful day, he managed to break free. Life had given him a second chance. And my God did he take it...

Today, he is the author of Bonus Time: A True Story of Surviving the Worst and Discovering the Magic of Every Moment; he is a speaker, a Ph.D., and a university lecturer.

With a relentless belief that we are what we think, Brian is on a mission to show people that change is possible, demonstrating actionable steps through a lived experience.

In this talk, Brian unravels his incredible story from the depths of despair to today, where he sees himself as one of the happiest men alive. If you are looking for inspiration, I'm not so sure it gets better than this.

A taste of what we discussed during this interview:

✓ The importance of self-talk

✓ Awareness

✓ Self-compassion

✓ Morning rituals

✓ How your belief becomes your reality

✓ How to be better at communicating your needs

"Nutrition and Gut Health for Regulating Anxiety" with Anita Tee

Anita Tee is a highly qualified and published nutritional scientist, carrying a Masters of Science in Personalized Nutrition and a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology, specializing in Genetic & Molecular Biology.

And, similar to so many I speak to, much of her work and curiosity was born from a quest to heal herself having spent years in agony, and constant physical discomfort, with frequent emotional lows.

This turned out to be quite the journey for Anita, which would eventually see her research in Digestive Health & Gut Bacteria published by the British Association of Nutritional Therapists.

Anita does an incredible job simplifying a very complex subject while offering great wisdom on the relationship between gut and mental health, as well as many practical ways to improve our health.

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ The role of the gut in our overall health and mental health

✓ The impact of stress on our gut health

✓ How do we know if our gut is healthy?

✓ Understanding inflammation

✓ What your poo is telling you!

✓ How to improve your gut health

✓ What foods we should be eating more off

✓ What foods we should be eating less off

✓ Supplementing. And how best to do it.

“An Holistic Approach to Healing” with Domonique Silva

Domonique is an Environmental Health & Safety Specialist and truth seeker of holistic approaches to healing people and the environment

Her struggle with allergies, eczema, bloating, fatigue, and depression displayed the complexities of healing and that there’s no pill that will fix all symptoms.

Since taking more of her health into her own hands, Domonique blogs, podcasts, and interviews others around topics focusing on ways to promote the health of people and the environment. She recently hosted her Healthy Home Habits summit to dive into her curiosity of all things health and wellness where she gathered tremendous wisdom which she shares with us today.

A taste of what we discuss during this interview:

✓ Understanding how the products you use in the home can be contributing to poor health

✓ The importance of oral health

✓ The importance of sleep and how to improve yours

✓ How to create a healthier environment in your home

✓ Self-compassion

✓ Social Media

✓ The Black Lives Matter movement as it relates to mental health