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“Anxiety is never the root cause—it’s a symptom of a deeper problem,” says Greg Schmaus, holistic health coach and founder of Healing 4D, who returns to Mental Health in a Modern World with a solo episode devoted to healing in the age of anxiety. As rates of anxiety continue to hit record highs—affecting up to one-third of U.S. adults—Greg Schmaus unpacks why “curing” anxiety with quick fixes or pharmaceuticals fails to address its complex, multidimensional roots.

In this must-listen episode, Greg Schmaus challenges the mainstream approach of medicating anxiety, revealing the staggering statistic that 90% of serotonin isn’t produced in the brain, but in the gut—and warns how overreliance on SSRIs skips the foundational building blocks: sleep, nutrition, movement, breathwork, and regulating our exposure to digital overwhelm. He explores why both top-down (mind to body) and bottom-up (body to mind) strategies are essential, and how anxiety can be a protective response to trauma, attachment injuries, or even signs of spiritual awakening.

Find out how to move beyond symptom-chasing and discover a truly holistic path to healing anxiety—one that acknowledges our uniquely “biopsychosocial-spiritual” nature, and empowers you to reclaim ownership of your mind and body. Tune in to Mental Health in a Modern World to learn what the statistics miss, what every psychiatrist should be asking about your gut, and why your anxiety may be something far deeper—and more transformative—than you think.

5 Key Takeaways

Take charge of your mental health by focusing on foundational habits that target the root causes of anxiety.

1. Prioritize high-quality sleep and align your daily rhythms with natural light to reset your nervous system.
2. Eat whole, unprocessed foods and support your gut health to reduce inflammation and stabilize mood.
3. Move your body daily through exercise to boost mood-enhancing neurotransmitters and decrease stress.
4. Establish a daily meditation or breathwork practice to anchor your awareness in the present moment and calm anxiety.
5. Limit your exposure to devices, social media, and news—replace digital time with meaningful moments in nature.

Start today—choose one habit and commit to making it part of your daily routine.

Memorable Quotes

"Anxiety is never the root cause of a situation. Anxiety is a symptom of a deeper problem."

"Belief and intention are the most powerful things in the world. What you create in your mind actually starts to shift matter."

"Healing rather than curing is really the only path forward when it comes to this current mental health crisis, but really the chronic disease crisis at large."

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Welcome back to Mental health in a modern world. So today is

going to be a solo episode where we're going to dive into healing

and age of anxiety. And this is such an important topic right

now because rates of anxiety have really reached an all time high.

I was looking at some statistics the other day and I

found some stats that showed that over A third, around

30 to 33% of US adults

are currently experiencing some form of an

anxiety disorder. And so anxiety, you know,

has risen tremendously in terms of, you know, the

rates and the statistics. And a lot of this, you know, seems

as though it was escalating around the time of the COVID pandemic.

But I think there's, you know, a lot more involved in

this epidemic of anxiety, this age of anxiety that

our culture is experiencing. And today I wanted to do an

episode really kind of peeling back some of the layers

and really understanding or supporting you in understanding some

of the many root causes of anxiety. And one of the

challenges that we see in the Western medical,

conventional, traditional approach is to

try and look for cures. There's this whole

chronic disease epidemic, and when we're trying to

look for cures, we're trying to look for this linear

A plus B equals C equation, which as human

beings, because we're so multi dimensional, and like I

said in a previous episode, we are

biopsychosocial, spiritual beings, since we are

so multidimensional, to try and find a this for that

cure is really almost impossible. And so

that's why understanding this on a holistic level,

where we can see the many different root causes

that are resulting in enough stress on the organism

that the organism is then expressing these

symptoms through the body or mind as a stress

response and as an adaptation to stress. Right.

So today we're going to dive into a lot of these root causes.

But just to begin, I'd love to take just a minute or two and

do a little meditation with you. And one of the reasons I like starting

our solo episodes with some sort of breath work that we did in the

last episode and meditation that we do in this solo

episode is I want, I want what I'm offering you to

be practical. You know, a lot of people listen to podcasts and it's a lot

of information, but there's not a lot of practical

application that allows you to integrate the

information. So I want you to be able to take this information and

integrate it into practical application. And so

that's why I want to offer you just a very simple practical

meditation just for about a minute or two just to begin

this journey together. So if you're able to close your

eyes while you're listening, please do so. And if you can't, whether

it's because you're driving or you're doing something else, then

obviously continue what you're doing. But you can actually still practice

this meditation as you're listening. You even if you are

somewhat multitasking as you're along for the ride with us.

So if you close your eyes for a moment or just bring your awareness

to your breath, I invite you to notice

the in breath and out breath through your nostrils.

So if you bring your awareness to the inside of your nose,

noticing the airflow as it moves in and out

through the nostrils, and really pay

attention to the sensation of the breath, the

sensation of the air as it flows in and out through the

nostrils, and as we're following the in

breath and out breath through the nostrils in our mind

silently, we're very simply going to count the breath up to

10. So as you inhale, you'll just count

in your mind 1. As you exhale,

you'll count in your mind 2. As

you breathe back in, count in your mind 3.

As you breathe out, counting in the mind 4

and making your way up to 10.

If you notice your mind wandering or getting distracted with other

thoughts, just gently come back to counting the breath up

to 10. Once you get to

10, start back at 1 and we'll go one more round

up to 10.

And then once you finish this Last Round of 10, you can bring yourself back.

This is a very simple and practical meditation.

And you know, from my experience and my perspective, meditation

is the practice of sustained attention. It's sustained

attention on the present moment, right? So the

breath is only happening in the present moment. You can't breathe in the past and

you can't breathe in the future. You're always breathing here and now.

And so the anchoring of attention on the breath is what anchors your

attention on the present moment. And what's really interesting is

that a lot of people talk about anxiety

always being this mindset of anticipation,

right? So a lot of people talk about anxiety always being this

anticipatory mindset. Always

anticipate anticipating some potential threat,

some potential crisis, some negative outcome.

So anxiety is always anticipatory, which is future

oriented. A lot of times depression

just kind of going there for a moment. Depression is very much

past orientation. A lot of times depression comes

with the energy of regret, which keeps us tethered

to the past, where anxiety is a lot of

the energy of anticipation, which keeps us tethered to

the future. Right. So depression and anxiety

are both expressions of a mind that is

either tethered to the past through regret or

attached to the future through anticipation.

And so meditation is actually the practice of

presence. It's actually the practice of bringing

yourself back into the here and now through

sustained attention on something like the breath, which is

always breathing in the here and now. Right. So this is why

sustained attention through the practice of meditation, which

brings you into presence, is one of the most important

practices for the healing of anxiety. A little

background. I mentioned that, you know, 20 to

30%, maybe a little bit more of us adults are

experiencing some form of an anxiety disorder. And most

of the mainstream treatments in conventional and

western medicine and psychiatry are medications.

They're either SSRIs, which are selective

serotonin reuptake inhibitors. So they work on the serotonin

levels of the brain. And there's also SNRIs, which work on

serotonin and norepinephrine. And so these are the

two most common classifications of

medications that are used for

anxiety disorders. Now, one thing that I'll say

is I'm not against the use of anything. I'm against

the misuse of things, from my perspective, the

incorrect order of operations, you know. So for me,

if one is to use a medication like an SSRI, that to me

is a last resort. There's a whole foundation and

building blocks of health that must be put into

place before we put the cart before the horse, so to

speak, with something like a medication with

tremendous side effects and creates patterns of

dependency where it's very hard to get off these

medications. Legal disclaimer. I'm not a doctor. I

can't tell you what to do. But I will say that, you

know, these medications, from my perspective,

should be a last resort. They should be something

that you use after you've exhausted all other

mechanisms that have less cost.

For example, changing your diet, practicing meditation, getting to sleep on

time, exercising, spending more time in nature. There's no

downside to those practices. There's no negative side effects.

There's no cost to them. There's only benefit. So I'm a

big fan of really assessing the cost

benefit ratio of any modality and always starting

with the least invasive and then working your way

up to the most invasive, because the most invasive usually comes with

various side effects and has a cost to it. And there's also

research that shows that the average placebo

is very close to the effectiveness of the

medication itself. I was Looking at research the other day, and it showed

that on average, an SSRI might

have a relative improvement of around

50%, maybe 55%,

and the average placebo is anywhere between

35 to 40% effective compared to

the medication. And so that shows you that the

effectiveness of SSRIs is actually quite

minimal compared to the effectiveness of a

placebo. Which a placebo shows you how

powerful the mind is, how powerful belief is.

You know, if you check out the work of Dr. Joe Dispenza, who wrote

an amazing book called you are the Placebo, he

really goes into one of the things that gets quite overlooked and

in the field of Western medicine, which is the real power of

the placebo and how that's happening, right? The

mind's impact over your physiology,

over your neurochemistry, your belief systems,

your intention, are really the most powerful sources

of medicine. Belief and intention are the most powerful things in the

world. And what you create in your mind

actually starts to shift matter, right? Matter can't

organize itself without mind, without an observer, without

intention, without information. And so the power

of a placebo is incredible. And so we just want to make

ourselves aware that, you know, a placebo is almost

as powerful as some of the medications that are using and

for some of these anxiety and depressive disorders, which is

something that you should be very careful with when you see

statistics like that in terms of getting on a medication like that, which

comes with a lot of side effects and. And potential cost.

So I want to start with the definition of what is

anxiety. So I was looking online for just basic

definitions, because it's really helpful to define these things.

So two that I came across is anxiety is an

apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness, usually

over an impending or anticipated misfortune,

right? So that was in the Webster's Dictionary of definition for anxiety.

So one of the things I want to point out there is an impending

or anticipated misfortune, so

anticipation, right? Future orientation.

So remember, anxiety is always rooted in

a future orientation or a mind that is in a state of

anticipation, which is why I introduced that meditation

to you. We have that anticipatory

ingredient in this definition. Then the other

definition, which is a medical definition is

anxiety is an abnormal and overwhelming sense of

apprehension and fear often marked by

physiological symptoms concerning a given threat

in one's reality and self, doubt about one's

capacity to cope with it. A few things that I want to

extract from that definition. Number one is

physiological symptoms. So we, we very often look at

anxiety as a mental health Disorder. But anxiety is

mostly experienced in the body, right? It's a

somatic experience. So that's why a lot of the

somatic body oriented bottom up approach is usually

more effective than a top-down approach. Right. A

top down is mind to body, a bottom-up is body to mind.

It's a two way highway. And so based on this

medical definition, anxiety is

experienced as a physiology or as a

physical manifestation, something we experience

somatically or in the body. So this is why bottom up

approaches, somatic approaches, and taking care of the

health of the body is so important. The next piece is

concerning a given threat in one's reality. So

the perception of threat. Now the perception of threat

always ties into the autonomic nervous system, right? So when

we're perceiving threat, we're in a sympathetic fight or

flight state. Right? The sympathetic fight or flight state is

one branch of the autonomic nervous system that is wired for

survival and that gets triggered during times of stress.

Now remember, your body and your nervous system doesn't know the difference between

relationship stress, financial stress, or being chased by a

lion, right? It always moves you into this sympathetic fight or

flight response. And so the perception or the lens

that you perceive your reality through are going to be

through that lens of anxiety. So anxiety

is experienced in the body, right? So bottom up

physiology. And anxiety is also related

to the autonomic nervous system. So nervous system

dysregulation or nervous system imbalance. Right.

So those three core ingredients I just wanted to extract

from some of these definitions that anxiety is in the body.

Anxiety is always a future orientation or

anticipatory aspect of the mind. And then

anxiety is an expression of an imbalance in the

autonomic nervous system, a dysregulated autonomic nervous system

that is predominantly in a sympathetic fight or flight

state. It was important for me to really guide you through

the extraction of some of those key ingredients

in those definitions. Now we're going to get into

going through the many root causes of anxiety.

Holistic health is really about getting to the root cause, not treating

symptoms, but treating the root cause. And anxiety is always a

symptom. Anxiety is never the root cause of a situation.

Anxiety is a symptom of a deeper problem. Right?

So if you're usually looking at the site of the pain, you're usually looking in

the wrong area if you're trying to find the root of it. Right. It's

kind of like trimming the weeds versus pulling the root.

Anxiety is very much the weeds. And what we'll get into

with some of these different areas of holistic health

would be pulling the root system, right? So the first is

poor sleep and circadian rhythms, right? So when we have

poor sleep and circadian rhythms, we increase cortisol

levels, we increase sympathetic nervous system

activity, we increase amygdala activity,, which is

where a lot of the fear and anxiety and sympathetic

nervous system activity gets generated. So remember we

said anxiety is a nervous system disorder. So if we have

poor sleep and poor circadian rhythms, and we have this

increase in stress hormones and increase in sympathetic

nervous system activity, we really need to attend to our

system, sleep hygiene, sleep quality, sleep quantity,

and really attuning our biology to the natural rising and

setting of the sun, which is our circadian rhythm. So

that's number one is poor sleep and poor circadian

rhythms. Number two is poor nutrition and poor gut

health, right? So nutrition is one of the key factors when

it comes to anxiety. And there's a lot of research that

shows that anxiety and depression disorders are very

much expressions of chronic inflammation. So

whenever you create chronic inflammation, a few things happens. You

create what's called permeability in the barriers

of the body. This is the gut barrier, so your intestinal

lining becomes permeable and also your blood brain

barrier becomes permeable. And this creates this

chronic state of inflammation and also raises

cortisol levels and keeps the body in this and

nervous system in this low level stress response, which

a lot of times we're then constantly perceiving our

reality through the lens of stress and survival, right? So a

few factors we want to take a look at is inflammation,

blood sugar dysregulation. So when we have these

constant spikes in blood sugar from eating too many

processed carbohydrates, processed sugar and processed food,

overall, we create even more inflammation when

our blood sugar is high, and we create even more

cortisol when our blood sugar is low. And this leads to a

lot of anxiety. So inflammation, blood sugar

dysregulation, and like I said, the

leaky gut. And so the gut permeability and the

permeability of the blood brain barrier creating neural

inflammation or inflammation in the brain also heightens our

immune and nervous system responses, creating this

constant state of anxiety through the sympathetic

nervous system. Now, the last thing I want to

touch upon in terms of nutrition and gut health is we

talked about earlier that the many medications that are

used for anxiety and depression disorders are working

on the serotonin pathway. Most psychiatrists are not

telling you that 90% of your serotonin is made by your gut

bacteria. 90% of your serotonin is not made in your

brain, it's made by your gut bacteria. So one question I

have for people that are going to psychiatrists,

therapists, how many of them, if you're approaching

them with an anxiety disorder, how many of them are

asking you about your gut health? How many of them are

asking you if you've looked into your microbiome or, or

any patterns of intestinal permeability? Very few. I

would say less than 5%. You know, if you go to more

metabolic psychiatry, holistic and integrative

psychiatry, you're going to find more of that. But

generally speaking, very few psychiatrists or

clinical therapists are really going to be asking you

about your gut health. But the truth is, 90% of these

neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, are going to be

made by your gut bacteria. So if you have dysbiosis or an

imbalance in your gut flora, you're going to have an

imbalance in your neurotransmitter production, a

deficiency in serotonin production. And so that's

something to really attend to is your diet and your gut

health. Now the next piece is sedentary living. We all

know this, that exercise is one of the most important

things for boosting hormones and neurotransmitters

that support mental health. This is dopamine, this is

serotonin, this is our endocannabinoids,, this is our

norepinephrine, this is our endorphin system. All of

these hormones and neurotransmitters get released

through exercise. So sedentary living very much

relates to a decrease in these neurotransmitter and

hormone production in this hormone and

neurotransmitter production that leads to optimal

mental health. So a lot of anxiety and depression

disorders can be relieved through proper exercise and

movements. The next thing is going to be social media

and the news. We all know that social, I mean, I

hope we all know by now that social media and the news is one of

the worst things for, for our mental health.

90% of the news is negative for fear

based and orientation. A lot of that is for a reason. Because

when we pump out negative or fear based information, it

triggers a sympathetic fight or flight response. It triggers

a hyper vigilance that says, I need to know about this for my own

survival. And so it creates these patterns of addiction and these

patterns of over consumption and overstimulation.

Now social media very much hijacks our neurochemistry.

It hijacks our Dopamine system, it depletes us of

neurotransmitters, it increases feelings of isolation,

it lowers our self esteem, it increases sympathetic

nervous system activation, it creates patterns of addiction,

and it increases what we call FOMO or the fear of missing out.

And it really disconnects you from reality, it disconnects you from

nature, it disconnects you from your own body. And it disconnects

you from true connection to yourself and others.

You know, relational connection, but also connection to yourself and connection

to your own soul, your own consciousness. Social media and technology

capture your consciousness, it pulls it out of you. And so

you're no longer really embodied or ensouled anymore.

You're really captured by, you know, a lot of these social

media outlets. I don't need to ramble on that anymore.

We all know how much social media news increases rates of

anxiety and depression. Now one

of the pieces that I'm going to dive into with you that's very often

overlooked is chronic infections

and environmental toxicity. Chronic infections

such as parasite infections, fungal infections like

Candida, Lyme disease, Bartonella,

strep, a lot of these low level chronic, I'm not

talking about acute infections where you get sick. I'm talking about low

level chronic infections which are usually due to immune

suppression, chronic stress, overactive sympathetic

nervous system, poor nutrition, poor diet and

lifestyle management. The low level

chronic infections keep the body and nervous system

in a low level stress response all the time.

This feeling of unwell, but also what happens which, which is

really interesting when we have low level chronic infections and there are

these, we can call them internal pathogens that are

creating stress in our physiology. A lot

of people aren't aware of where that is coming from, so they project

it outside of them. They're looking for some

external pathogen or perpetrator to

explain why they're feeling the way they are in their own

biology. So a lot of people have low level chronic

infections that they're not addressing in their own

physiology. So they project it outward

and look for some external reason as

to why they're feeling the dysregulation

internally, right? So low level chronic infections

and histamine is also one of the leading causes of

anxiety. When we have these low level chronic infections, when

we have gut permeability, when we have a

dysbiosis in our microbiome, it increases

levels of histamine in the body, which also leads to a lot of

anxiety disorders. Now when it comes to environmental

toxicity, things like chemicals and pesticides,

heavy metals and electromagnetics from non

native EMFs all create more

stress hormones in the body, more toxicity, things like brain

fog, more sympathetic nervous system activity, more

permeability in the body and the brain's barriers.

And so all of these things express this overall stress

load in the organism. And if they're not addressed internally,

we perceive the threats outside of us, and it creates high

levels of anxiety. So before

I move forward, we have sleep and circadian rhythms, we have

nutrition and gut health, we have sedentary living and the need for

exercise, we have social media and news, we

have chronic infections and environmental toxicity. And then

we have trauma. You know, unresolved trauma is one of the leading

causes of anxiety. Because what happens when we experience trauma

is in a traumatic event, there's a part of our psyche

that fragments off, gets frozen in time, and does

not move beyond that experience. And that part of our

psyche becomes a protector which is constantly on

the lookout for any potential threat that resembles the

initial trauma. And it will create a heightened state of

anxiety or hypervigilance as a means of trying to

protect you from any reoccurring trauma. So, for

example, if you got. If you were robbed or assaulted

by someone wearing a red sweatshirt, anytime your mind sees

a red sweatshirt, it's going to activate the fear, stress, or

anxiety from that trauma as a way of trying to protect you

from any environment, situation, or engagement that might

replicate the trauma. Right? So trauma creates a

protective system that often is expressed as

symptoms of anxiety. Right. So they're protectors as

parts of the psyche that are assigned to protect core

wounds, unresolved emotions, and traumas that we've

been through in the past. Right. So trauma is one of the leading

causes of anxiety. With that being

said, one of the things that has

been a source of contemplation for me for many years

is this question of is

anxiety an emotion, or

is anxiety the avoidance of emotion?

Almost like, is anxiety a feeling or is

anxiety the protector that's keeping you away

from feeling a given emotion? Right. So I'm not

of the belief that anxiety is an emotion. I'm of the belief that

anxiety is a protective system trying to keep you

away from feeling a given emotion. Like we said, it's a

protector of trauma. So if there's unprocessed

grief, unprocessed sadness, unprocessed anger,

etc. Anxiety is very often the protective system

that's trying to keep us away from

feeling the sadness, the grief, the anger, et cetera, that is

still unprocessed in our system. And so

that's something that I just wanted to distinguish for a moment that from my

perspective, anxiety is not an emotion or feeling. Anxiety is the

attempt to avoid an emotion or a feeling,

which is what we talked about a moment ago, which is anxiety

is usually built in protective system as a

result of unhealed trauma. Anxiety is often related

to what we call attachment injuries. This usually goes back to our

childhood. When we're children, we need to try and secure attachments

to our primary caretakers, to our parents.

And a secure attachment is a sense of a safe connection where

we feel seen, we feel heard, we feel valued, we feel

attended to, we feel attuned to. And this allows us to

feel safe, to settle for our nervous system to soften. When

we have attachment injuries where there's a break in that safe connection

to a parent or a primary caretaker, it increases the

activity in the amygdala, it increases rates of anxiety, it

increases stress hormones, and it leads to anxiety

disorders. And one of the most common symptoms, which is patterns of

addiction. So from my experience, both personally and

professionally, most addiction is rooted in attachment injuries, which

that's going to be a follow up episode. I'm going to do a solo episode

unpacking the roots of addiction. So stay tuned for that.

We have trauma, we have attachment injuries. And now the last piece, which

is, I would say the most overlooked is

anxiety is often symptoms of spiritual awakening. So as

we're awakening spiritually, we're expanding in consciousness, we're

experiencing the multidimensional aspects of ourselves and

we're raising our frequency or vibration. That all

has to be integrated into a physiology and into a human

nervous system. And anxiety is very often the symptoms of

integrating higher frequencies and higher vibrations

into a human body and into a human nervous system. And before

that integration and embodiment happens, we experience

symptoms of anxiety, symptoms of panic, symptoms of, you

know, many of the mental health challenges or quote,

unquote, disorders that we are seeing in this current

mental health crisis. A lot of it is actually symptoms of

spiritual awakening. And I'm also going to do a follow up

episode on the connection between mental health and

spirituality and the connection between our mental health

crisis and spiritual awakening. So stay tuned for that as

well. So spiritual awakening can very often come with

symptoms of anxiety as these higher frequencies, higher

dimensions and higher vibrational states are integrating

into the physiology and into the human nervous system. Just

in summary, when it comes to root causes of anxiety, we have

sleep and circadian rhythms, we have nutrition and gut

health, we have sedentary living and the need for more

exercise, we have social media, news, technology, we have

chronic infections and environmental toxicity, we have

unresolved trauma, we have attachment injuries, and we

have symptoms of spiritual awakening. And this is why

taking a holistic approach to mental health and anxiety is

absolutely essential and why looking for a cure

is not possible. You can't look for a cure

in an organism. And a situation

that is so multifactorial, where one person's

anxiety is rooted in an attachment trauma, another

person's anxiety is rooted in a parasite infection,

another person's anxiety is rooted in poor sleep, and

another person's anxiety is rooted in

excess consumption of social media and technological

information through, let's say, news outlets. So you

could see how can you find a this for that cure when we're so

multidimensional and, and the root causes can come from so many

different areas. That's why healing rather than

curing is really the only path forward when it comes

to this current mental health crisis, but really the

chronic disease crisis at large. So this is why

healing versus curing is so important to understand. And

it's never this for that linear left brain type

mentality. This is why the use of the right brain is so essential,

because the right brain can see the whole where the left brain can

only see isolated parts. And unfortunately, most

western medicine, which has its value in acute traumatic care,

falls short when it comes to healing chronic disease because it's too

left brain dominant. It's either this for that, it's A plus

B equals C and it overlooks the whole and it just isolates

the parts. So when it comes to healing anxiety,

where do we start? Well, number one, eat a whole

unprocessed food diet, eat organic food,

eat food that lowers inflammation, that stabilizes your blood

sugar, that supports the health of your microbiome,

optimize your circadian rhythms, get to bed by

00pm, rise with the, the rising of the sun,

Go to bed, you know, a few hours after the setting of the sun. So

the more you schedule your day and

prioritize your sleep with the rising and setting of the sun, the more

you tune your system with nature. So that's number

two. Number three is exercise and move your body daily.

That goes without saying. Number four, have a daily meditation

practice, a daily breathwork practice to really practice presence,

sustained attention and to bring that nervous

system activation down, bring yourself back into a parasympathetic state.

Number five, spend less time on devices. Pretty

straightforward. Number six, spend more time in nature. Pretty

straightforward. As you can see, healing anxiety can

be pretty straightforward if you set the foundation,

the Building blocks first and then after that

then you can go more into special specialty treatments

and the possible use of medications. But please do

not put the cart before the horse. Eat whole unprocessed

food. Optimize your circadian rhythms, Exercise, move

your body daily, have a daily meditation or breathwork

practice, spend less time on devices and spend more time in

nature. And I promise you this will take you

miles in your progress along your healing journey with

anxiety. And then if you need, you know, extra support,

whether it's through medication, through therapy, through

coaching, you know that's something that you can explore. If

you would like to explore this further with me, you can go to

my website, healing40.com you can reach out to me for

one on one coaching. I also have my online program, Healing the

Mind A Journey to Wholeness, which is a 21 day mental health program. It

takes a fully holistic approach to mental health. It dives

into all of the factors that we're talking about today and so much more.

And it takes you on this 21 day journey through a lot of diet and

lifestyle shifts and a lot of practical tools and healing

techniques. Just like the meditation that I took you through, you know,

earlier in the episode, you also have the breathwork practice in my

last solo episode. So there's a lot of resources here for

you. So healing40.com for one on one coaching

healing40.com/htm for the healing the Mind program, you

can use the code podcast at checkout to save 20% off and I

look forward to sharing more with you in a future episode

and I hope you have a beautiful rest of your day. If you

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This is an age of anxiety and so I'm sure you know people that

are struggling with some of the challenges that we spoke

about today. So it mean a lot to me if we spread the love and

share the message. We need all hands on deck right now to

support people in their healing and so I appreciate you

taking the time to go on this journey with me and once again I

look forward to sharing more with you soon in a future

episode. Bye bye.