Barry McDonagh > Quotes

“When you’re very anxious, you end up trapped in your head all the time— the prison without walls. Your”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You are not your anxiety. As abnormal as it makes you feel, this anxiety is not the real you. It is not who you are or who you have become.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You are not a weak or cowardly person for having an anxiety problem.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Anxiety is nothing more than nervous energy in your body. This energy rises and falls just like waves on the ocean.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Whatever! I accept and allow this anxious feeling. I’m excited by it as I engage with what’s in front of me.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Yet an anxiety disorder is simply an experience that a person moves through, just like a period of grief or sadness. Would we give a person with a broken heart or someone suffering from grief a label for life? No, yet people who go through a period of anxiety sometimes end up believing that this diagnosis, this label, is now a part of who they are.   “HOW”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“The anxious thoughts you experience are just thoughts and nothing more. They don’t represent the real you. They’re simply the result of stress hormones interacting with your vigilant and creative mind.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You become a curious witness instead of a victim of your anxiety. You stop getting hooked in by each anxious thought or sensation and learn how to simply observe and allow it to be.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Recovery lies in the midst of all the sensations you dread the most.” –Dr. Claire Weekes”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“The higher your general anxiety level, the more you overreact to unknown sensations.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“it’s okay not to feel okay.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Remember, anxiety is nothing more than a wave of energy flowing through your body. This energy will not hurt you.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“I see the anxiety as a messenger, an important tool to help me know myself. Working WITH my anxiety in this way is new for me, as I have suppressed my negative feelings for almost all of my adult life. When anxiety is hot in my chest and belly, I just say, ‘Hello there, welcome, let’s talk.’ Then later in the day when I can relax, I come back to the feelings and accept their presence, thanking them for being around and the lessons they present me.” Just”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“An anxiety disorder is difficult to understand unless you've experienced it firsthand.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Anxiety is not a life sentence. It is absolutely curable.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“The job of your stress system is to keep you safe and alive not to kill you. The symptoms of anxiety are uncomfortable but they are not dangerous. You have my word as a doctor – this adrenaline rush will not kill you.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You immediately respond by defusing it with a playful “so what/whatever” attitude. Then you move into allowing any residual anxiety you feel to be fully present. You get comfortable with your anxious discomfort. “I accept and allow this anxious feeling.” Now run toward the anxious feelings by telling yourself that you are in fact excited by them. “I’m excited by this feeling.” Then finally, you move your focus back to what you were doing. In this case, you engage with the work in front of you without feeling a need to check in all the time because you know you’re doing the right thing to heal your anxiety. Please”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Don't think of yourself as being weak or less courageous than others just because you suffer from anxiety.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“The most important thing is that you actually apply it each and every time you feel anxious. If after a few moments you feel another big wave of anxiety rise, then start The DARE Response over and go through the steps again.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“I accept and allow this anxious feeling.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Don’t get upset when the anxiety keeps intruding. It will, I promise you—that’s inevitable.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“SUMMARY OF THE DARE RESPONSE FOR PANIC ATTACKS If you feel the beginnings of a panic attack, respond to those initial waves of anxiety with a “so what/whatever.” You’re safe. Your body can handle it! As the waves increase, accept and allow all the uncomfortable anxious thoughts and sensations to just be. Don’t resist them. Bob up and down with them. Repeat to yourself, “I accept and allow this anxious feeling.” If a wave of anxiety peaks into a panic attack, run toward it. Tell yourself that you feel excited and then call fear’s bluff by demanding more! Ride up and over the wave of adrenaline. Once the initial flood of adrenaline has passed, understand that there may be a few more minor waves of adrenaline”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“This mechanism worked great when we needed to escape saber-toothed tigers thousands of years ago, but it’s considerably less helpful when it’s triggered while stuck in traffic or riding on the subway.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“Allow the anxiety around depression to be present and mindfully sit with it without trying to force it away or beat yourself up for feeling this way.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“That new mindset moves you from a state of panic into a state of power. Do you remember in the movie Forest Gump how Lieutenant Dan battles the storm on the mast of his ship. “Is that all ya got?” he screams as the waves wash over him. The storm could not throw enough at him. When it eventually passed, he was a transformed man.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“You’ll not only learn how to end your anxiety problem, but you’ll also discover how to turn this problem into a personal triumph. You’ll have the opportunity to discover the meaning in this struggle and develop a new hidden strength within yourself. People who eventually find me usually do so after they’ve gone through a wide range of therapies and treatments, everything from alternative therapies to the more traditional route of anti-anxiety medications.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“They have no idea how terrifying a panic attack can feel or how uncomfortable a sensation like unreality can be.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“No matter how deranged and shocking your anxious thoughts are, I guarantee you there's someone close to you who is also suffering in silence. No matter how bad your panic attacks are, there are millions of people that experience them in the exact same manner - with the exact same unusual sensations - as you.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast

“What you’re looking to achieve is to feel the sensations without getting upset or scared by them—to feel anxiety without getting anxious about it.”
― Barry McDonagh, Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks Fast