To Overcome Anxiety, You Need to Understand it
Once you understand anxiety, you are better able to manage and get rid of it from your life. Did you know that over 25% of all Australians will experience a form of anxiety in their lifetime?
That’s one in four people.
And most of these every day people, will just carry on with their day to day lives, dealing with their responsibilities, whilst finding it hard to cope or understand why they are feeling the way they do. Real people who will probably not get the opportunity to speak to someone about their struggle.
We don’t believe that is right.
Taking the time to understand
In the last 10 years Live Life Get Active have worked with over 100,000 people right across Australia promoting and facilitating better health. Better physical health, better mental health and better social health. When you work with this many people and you ask them about their issues and dreams you get a very good understanding of their lives.
You also understand how much they care and how much they want to enjoy life and give it a real go.
Anxiety will affect 1 in 4 people – it doesn’t discriminate
Everyone deserves to feel happy and enjoy life
Part of getting to know the people we work with, is about understanding their fears and frustrations. Anxiety is ranked right up there. So we decided to create a program to help people help themselves in dealing with this problem. Help them understand what anxiety is, why a little is actually a good thing and a lot is not. Help them understand the different types of anxiety and why the manifest themselves. Help them understand how anxiety makes us feel and importantly what can be done to cope with it. And eventually, hopefully live with and overcome it.
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A big task, you may think. Well, yes and no. You see, we have worked with over 116 different cultures in our time. We have worked with young adults, Mums, tradies, teachers and nurses and we have worked with people in their 80’s and 90’s. We work across the social spectrum and everyone who comes into our environment is treated as equal.
Working with so many different people we realised that any program we produced needed to resonate with everyone. It needed to be easily understood and most importantly it needed to provide actionable help. We wanted people to feel an attachment without using stereotypes and have clarity of a complex subject, so we decided to animate. And we created a character called “Empathy” – because everyone needs empathy, no matter how tough or cool they think they are.
And finally, we called the course My Positive Mind because that is our end goal. To help people build a positive mindset.
My Positive Mind – All about Anxiety
Is a course delivered online and is broken down into 7 episodes that take you on a path of understanding. You can watch each episode in your own time and at a rate that suits you. The course has been developed by clinical psychologists and is based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) which is the #1 evidence based therapy for anxiety.
To get a feel for the course please watch this short trailer.
Here is what you can expect:
● Practical Coping Strategies: You will be shown simple, yet highly effective coping strategies you can use in your everyday life. Anytime, anywhere.
● Downloadable Factsheets: The factsheets provide a summary of each episode and are a great tool to keep for when you need to refresh on any of your learnings.
● Check-Ins: We will check in and see how you’re doing throughout the program.
● 30 Days of Practice – Guided Support: After you finish the program, you will be given a 30 day calendar that will encourage you to practice your coping strategies each day and build them into your daily life. As well as this, you can opt in to receive daily text messages that will remind you to practice and give you a little boost of support on your journey.
● Live Q&A session: Towards the end of the course you will have the opportunity to ask our team of Clinical Psychologists any questions you may have. You will also be invited to join a LIVE Q&A session where the whole course, and multiple common issues will be discussed. You can join in or just watch, it will be up to you.
Who is this Program For?
● Anyone dealing with mild to moderate Anxiety.
● Those supporting loved ones or friends who are experiencing Anxiety.
If you would like to register or learn more
This program is FREE of charge and is made possible as a result of funding from the Primary Health Network in your local area. Register or learn more about the course:
