The Secret to Healing Anxiety

by Kelly Vincent

Anxiety is an incredibly common mental health struggle that affects millions of people. Unlike occasional periods of stress or worry, anxiety roots itself deep in our psyches to become a constant presence that negatively impacts our health and wellbeing. While it can feel too persistent and overwhelming to overcome, there are steps you can take to free yourself from anxiety and its powerful grip on your life. Discover a holistic approach to mental health with The Secret to Healing Anxiety. In six compassionate and accessible lessons, clinical psychologist Dr. Kelly Vincent will teach you perspectives and strategies that can help you develop physical, emotional, and spiritual resilience. The first step to facing any mental health struggle is to understand what it is and how it works. With Dr. Vincent’s guidance, you’ll get a thorough understanding of the nature of anxiety and how it manifests. From there, you’ll approach the issue from multiple angles and learn how to:

Better understand and regulate your nervous-system responses;
Identify and reprogram anxious thoughts and behaviors;
Prioritize nutrition and gut health;
Balance movement and stillness;

Find the therapeutic treatments that work for you.
The experience of anxiety is unique to every individual. As you develop the tools and practices of this holistic approach to mental health, you’ll also learn how to adapt them to your specific needs and abilities. With this personalized arsenal at your disposal, you’ll be ready to face the challenge of overcoming anxiety and reclaim your health, happiness, and peace of mind.

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Genres: Nonfiction, Audiobook, Self Help, Psychology

Audible Audio

Published January 3, 2025

About the author

Kelly Vincent wrangles data weekdays and spends the rest of their time playing with words. They grew up in Oklahoma but have moved around quite a bit, with Glasgow, Scotland being their favorite stop. They now live near Seattle with several cats who help them write their stories by strategically walking across the keyboard, with their first novel, Finding Frances, a fine example of this technique. Their three subsequent books, Ugly, Always the New Girl, and Binding Off, were released in 2022. Finding Frances won several indie awards and Ugly was selected as the Honor book for SCBWI’s Spark Award in the Books for Older Readers category for 2022. Kelly has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Oklahoma City University’s Red Earth program. Find them at kellyvincent.net, @kvbooks on Instagram, and @kv_books on TikTok.

Reviews

[LemontreeLime · Rating 3 out of 5]

S'alright

[Dippit! with E.S.Jennette · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has 6 chapters where you are learning what anxiety is, as well as the nervous system and how to regulate it, reprogramming your anxious thoughts, eating to heal your body, the power of movement and stillness, as well as getting curious.

I really enjoyed listening to it and how you really are what you think, eat, and how you move your body. All these things can work in tandem if you let it, and it can be really well if you let it happen.

I enjoyed learning about how exercise can alleviate a lot of pain in your body, and how psychosomatic things like physical and mental pain can be, but you allow yourself to be still, eat better, and to move, you can move your way into being well.

[Kevin T · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty straightforward, however, adding in cultural appropriation, gender identity and apologizing for talking about ancient techniques actually increases anxiety in a large percentage of anxiety sufferers. These, IMO, made up guilt traps should actually be explored and debunked to easy anxiety caused by fear of crossing some made up line. There is one race, it the human race. Religion and science both show we came from one place and that skin color and other superficial differences have more to do with adaptations on where their elders came from.

[Alex Shrugged · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good presentation. She hit all the right points, even referring to her own problems with anxiety in order to make a connection with the listener. That is important if you are trying to help someone change the way they react to life.

I probably won't listen to this audio course again. I know this material already and advise people about it quite often. It worked for me and it is based on sound science.

[Cheshire Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very straightforward and the author dives directly into the topics. It was a quick read that wasn’t anything tremendously knew that I’ve learned, but at the same time, it was a good general overview about anxiety. The book covers how to identify anxiety by presenting a few different assignment assignments, as well as ways to treat it.

[Ann Bickle · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is a slight chance that I am too far gone for this to help me!

[Mikaela Stadler · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great crash course guide to anxiety. Very informative and very practical and super reader friendly. I want to give this to some of my students.

[Krystal · Rating 3 out of 5]

As an audiobook, three stars. If you are wanting something interactive, almost like a book/workbook hybrid, you'll appreciate this a lot more!

[AttackGirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Practical application hands on lectures

[Cora Wildflower · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5⭐️

[Kym · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book has some great insights and explores all kinds of techniques to limiting anxiety. I love the little meditations at the end of the chapters.

[Danielle Hendricks · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good recap of what I'm learning in therapy from different voice. Oftentimes lessons hit me differently when I hear someone else explain them.

[Ashton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great way to learn more about anxiety, especially if you would like to explore your own anxiety. I will be using these techniques and recommending them to my students.

[Brad McKeehan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s fine.

[Jaymie Lynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Usefully helpful.

[Evil Secret Ninja · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good basic information on dealing wiht anxiety.

[Libby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic book! She shares so much good scientific information and some personal info as well. I love the exercises and constant reminders that this may be triggering and if so to reach out to appropriate supports (friends/family/therapist). I will certainly use some these exercises and share them with others!!

Great read - can help everyone no matter how anxious you are with basic exercises!