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The Anxious Girl's Toolkit
A guide to carrying anxiety a little more lightly. The guide I went looking for. The one that didn't exist yet.
Let me tell you what this guide is not: it’s not written by a therapist who has studied anxiety from a comfortable academic distance. It's not a list of breathing exercises you already know about and feel guilty for not doing. It's not going to tell you to meditate, cut out caffeine, or download a mindfulness app. (Well. Disclaimer, it does mention the breathing, and maybe a mindfulness app. But it’s tried and trusted by your anxious bestie here and I’ll explain it like a human, not a pamphlet.)
Here's what it actually is: it's the guide I went looking for at the height of my panic attack era (ahhhh, memories!) when I was googling symptoms at 2am, convinced something was catastrophically wrong, unable to find anyone who could explain what was happening to me in language that wasn't clinical, condescending, or relentlessly positive about how much better everything was going to get. I couldn't find it. So I wrote it.
What it is, and what I genuinely believe it can do, is make the whole thing feel slightly less enormous. Less lonely. Less weird. Less scary. A little more like something you can carry a little lighter rather than something that's weighing you down.
Written entirely from lived experience. Just me, a real person, living in it and with it, telling the truth about what it's like and what (slowly, imperfectly) has helped me along the way, and can hopefully help you too!
Inside, you'll find:
What anxiety is actually doing in your body (the explanation that finally made it less terrifying) How to understand your own specific anxiety (your unique triggers, your physical tells, your spiral anatomy)
The 3am toolkit: what to do when your brain won't let you sleep and everything feels catastrophically true
Daytime anxiety: the low hum version that doesn't look like anxiety but absolutely is
How to manage a panic attack, including what to do in the first 60 seconds when you can barely think straight
Anxiety and other people: how to tell them, what to say, how to ask for what you need
The longer game: what changes, what doesn't, and the five things that have genuinely helped me most
Plus a printable one page toolkit summary page, which you can think of as your personal reference card for the moments when you need it most and you can't remember any of it
Who this is for:
You don't need a diagnosis. You don't need to have had a panic attack. You just need to be someone who finds their own brain a lot to deal with sometimes. Which, based on my entirely unscientific research, is most of us.
This is for anyone who has ever felt completely alone in something that (as it turns out) almost everyone feels.
Who this is not for:
Anyone looking for a cure. (I'm sorry. I don't have one. Nobody does. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something far more expensive than this.)
Details:
25 pages · Instant PDF download · Print at home or read on any device ·
Please Note:
This is a self-help resource and is not a substitute for professional mental health care.
* This is a digital download. You'll receive a PDF instantly after purchase: no waiting, no shipping, no having to talk to anyone. Very on-brand for the anxious among us.
A guide to carrying anxiety a little more lightly. The guide I went looking for. The one that didn't exist yet.
Let me tell you what this guide is not: it’s not written by a therapist who has studied anxiety from a comfortable academic distance. It's not a list of breathing exercises you already know about and feel guilty for not doing. It's not going to tell you to meditate, cut out caffeine, or download a mindfulness app. (Well. Disclaimer, it does mention the breathing, and maybe a mindfulness app. But it’s tried and trusted by your anxious bestie here and I’ll explain it like a human, not a pamphlet.)
Here's what it actually is: it's the guide I went looking for at the height of my panic attack era (ahhhh, memories!) when I was googling symptoms at 2am, convinced something was catastrophically wrong, unable to find anyone who could explain what was happening to me in language that wasn't clinical, condescending, or relentlessly positive about how much better everything was going to get. I couldn't find it. So I wrote it.
What it is, and what I genuinely believe it can do, is make the whole thing feel slightly less enormous. Less lonely. Less weird. Less scary. A little more like something you can carry a little lighter rather than something that's weighing you down.
Written entirely from lived experience. Just me, a real person, living in it and with it, telling the truth about what it's like and what (slowly, imperfectly) has helped me along the way, and can hopefully help you too!
Inside, you'll find:
What anxiety is actually doing in your body (the explanation that finally made it less terrifying) How to understand your own specific anxiety (your unique triggers, your physical tells, your spiral anatomy)
The 3am toolkit: what to do when your brain won't let you sleep and everything feels catastrophically true
Daytime anxiety: the low hum version that doesn't look like anxiety but absolutely is
How to manage a panic attack, including what to do in the first 60 seconds when you can barely think straight
Anxiety and other people: how to tell them, what to say, how to ask for what you need
The longer game: what changes, what doesn't, and the five things that have genuinely helped me most
Plus a printable one page toolkit summary page, which you can think of as your personal reference card for the moments when you need it most and you can't remember any of it
Who this is for:
You don't need a diagnosis. You don't need to have had a panic attack. You just need to be someone who finds their own brain a lot to deal with sometimes. Which, based on my entirely unscientific research, is most of us.
This is for anyone who has ever felt completely alone in something that (as it turns out) almost everyone feels.
Who this is not for:
Anyone looking for a cure. (I'm sorry. I don't have one. Nobody does. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell you something far more expensive than this.)
Details:
25 pages · Instant PDF download · Print at home or read on any device ·
Please Note:
This is a self-help resource and is not a substitute for professional mental health care.
* This is a digital download. You'll receive a PDF instantly after purchase: no waiting, no shipping, no having to talk to anyone. Very on-brand for the anxious among us.