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Your Anxiety Is Giving Me Anxiety: A Survival Guide for Thriving in a High-Stress World
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Published January 20, 2026
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Elizabeth April
5 books35 followersClairvoyant, truth seeker, intuitive psychic, and best-selling author ELIZABETH APRIL (also known as EA) is here on a mission to help humanity awaken by expanding their mind to the infinite possibilities the universe has to offer. Through her online community, The School of Awakening, her Amazon best-selling book, You're Not Dying You're Just Waking Up, and her successful podcast, Expand, EA has brought her expertise to celebrity clientele like Demi Lovato, models, actors, and musicians such as Chris Daughtry... as well as her huge online community. Each week on her podcast, EA dives into topics like the matrix, simultaneous time, consciousness, quantum physics, spirit guides, aliens, awakening, the mandala effect and much more.
With well over seven million views on YouTube, over nine million minutes watched every month and an Instagram community of over 100K, the world is listening to what EA has to say. EA has been featured on Vice, Bustle, and Gaia TV to name a few, and has spoken at world renowned conferences across North America including the Harmonic Convergence Festival, Alien Con Toronto, and Wellness Expo Toronto. She has shared her expertise on numerous podcasts including Almost 30, The Balanced Blonde, Positive Head, Master Mind, Body, and Spirit among others. Most recently, EA was a featured expert on Unidentified with Demi Lovato (NBC's Peacock TV).
With well over seven million views on YouTube, over nine million minutes watched every month and an Instagram community of over 100K, the world is listening to what EA has to say. EA has been featured on Vice, Bustle, and Gaia TV to name a few, and has spoken at world renowned conferences across North America including the Harmonic Convergence Festival, Alien Con Toronto, and Wellness Expo Toronto. She has shared her expertise on numerous podcasts including Almost 30, The Balanced Blonde, Positive Head, Master Mind, Body, and Spirit among others. Most recently, EA was a featured expert on Unidentified with Demi Lovato (NBC's Peacock TV).
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November 22, 2025
I received a free copy of, Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety, by Elizabeth April, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This book helps you deal with your anxiety, ways to cope with anxiety. Over thinking and worrying are big parts of my anxiety. This book shows us way to cope with anxiety.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Proceed with caution - best used alongside therapy
Thank you to NetGalley, Elizabeth April, and Brilliance Publishing for this advanced audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
CW: Discussions of anxiety, trauma, mental health, encouragement to process trauma without professional support
I need to be upfront about something important: Elizabeth April has no formal training in psychology or mental health. April's background is as a clairvoyant and intuitive psychic, not as a mental health professional. While spiritual perspectives can complement therapy, this book positions itself as a primary treatment approach for anxiety, which is concerning given her lack of clinical training. Your Anxiety Is Giving Me Anxiety: A Survival Guide for Thriving in a High-Stress World makes bold claims about treating anxiety, encourages readers to work through trauma on their own, and frames medication as a temporary stepping stone while positioning her method as the better long-term solution. These are concerning positions for someone without credentials to take.
The book is built on the premise that anxiety stems from "energetic imbalance" and that people who are empathic absorb too much energy from the world around them. April frames anxiety as a gift or superpower that, once you stop fearing it and redirect its energy, will open new ways of moving through the world. Her ReNU Method is a three-part strategy designed to help readers decode anxiety, recognize triggers, and break free from fear cycles.
Here's what actually works in this book. The structure is solid. Each chapter includes tangible exercises with checklists and checkpoints, chapter summaries that make it easy to review what you've covered, and case studies that illustrate the concepts. There's a 21-day anxiety survival guide at the end designed to help shift habits. Many of the specific techniques April presents are actually evidence-based and used in therapy: pattern disruption, cord cutting letters, journaling, breathwork, grounding through the five senses, identifying whether anxiety comes from past wounds or future fears, gradual exposure to anxiety triggers, and reducing phone use. These are legitimate tools that can help people manage anxiety.
The problem is how these tools are presented. Everything is framed through pseudoscience about "energy drain" and "energetic imbalance" rather than the actual psychological and neurological basis for why these techniques work. More concerning, April encourages readers to identify and work through trauma on their own right at the start of the book. This can be genuinely dangerous depending on the severity of someone's trauma. She also positions medication as "suppressing" anxiety rather than treating it, framing her method as "the next step to move away from medication" and "the better option." This stigmatizes people who need psychiatric care and could discourage readers from getting necessary treatment.
April makes universal claims that her approach works for everyone without acknowledging when professional help is actually needed. The section on childhood anxiety particularly bothered me. She dismisses the reality of childhood trauma by saying most children haven't experienced "many traumas," which ignores adverse childhood experiences, bullying, academic pressure, intergenerational trauma, medical trauma, and neurodevelopmental differences. Trauma can happen even in loving homes.
What worries me most is what happens to readers who commit to this 21-day process and don't get the desired outcome. At the end of the guide, April tells readers that "true freedom from anxiety isn't a quick fix" and is "a commitment to showing up for yourself every single day." There's no acknowledgment that some people have clinical anxiety disorders requiring medical treatment. There's no guidance about when to seek professional help. This creates a framework where if the method doesn't work, readers blame themselves for not being committed enough rather than recognizing they might need actual psychiatric care. For someone with a serious anxiety disorder or trauma, this could keep them trapped in an ineffective approach while their condition worsens.
I want to be clear: I don't think everything in this book is bad. There are useful, legitimate techniques here. But this book should not be used as a standalone approach to treating anxiety. If someone is already seeing a therapist or counselor and wanted to use this as a supplemental framework for working through some of their anxiety, it might be helpful. But this book alone, without professional support, could spell disaster for many people.
Elizabeth April narrates her own audiobook. Her tone is fine and the audio quality is good. I found the pacing a bit slow for my taste so I sped it up, but that's just personal preference.
This book might work for people already in therapy looking for supplemental spiritual perspectives to discuss with their therapist. It is absolutely not appropriate for people with clinical anxiety disorders seeking primary treatment, trauma survivors who aren't already working with professionals, children or teens, or anyone not currently under the care of a mental health professional. If you're dealing with serious anxiety, please seek help from a licensed therapist or psychiatrist rather than relying solely on this book.
Some useful techniques presented irresponsibly by someone without the credentials to guide people through serious mental health work.
"Why are so many children these days dealing with anxiety? I talked earlier about how trauma gives rise to anxiety. Most children have not yet experienced many traumas. Of course there are unfortunately many children who are currently experiencing trauma, but there are also many more who have an incredibly loving upbringing and yet are more anxious than most adults. So this piece of the puzzle when understanding the rise in anxiety doesn't quite fit. What is going on?"
Thank you to NetGalley, Elizabeth April, and Brilliance Publishing for this advanced audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
CW: Discussions of anxiety, trauma, mental health, encouragement to process trauma without professional support
I need to be upfront about something important: Elizabeth April has no formal training in psychology or mental health. April's background is as a clairvoyant and intuitive psychic, not as a mental health professional. While spiritual perspectives can complement therapy, this book positions itself as a primary treatment approach for anxiety, which is concerning given her lack of clinical training. Your Anxiety Is Giving Me Anxiety: A Survival Guide for Thriving in a High-Stress World makes bold claims about treating anxiety, encourages readers to work through trauma on their own, and frames medication as a temporary stepping stone while positioning her method as the better long-term solution. These are concerning positions for someone without credentials to take.
The book is built on the premise that anxiety stems from "energetic imbalance" and that people who are empathic absorb too much energy from the world around them. April frames anxiety as a gift or superpower that, once you stop fearing it and redirect its energy, will open new ways of moving through the world. Her ReNU Method is a three-part strategy designed to help readers decode anxiety, recognize triggers, and break free from fear cycles.
Here's what actually works in this book. The structure is solid. Each chapter includes tangible exercises with checklists and checkpoints, chapter summaries that make it easy to review what you've covered, and case studies that illustrate the concepts. There's a 21-day anxiety survival guide at the end designed to help shift habits. Many of the specific techniques April presents are actually evidence-based and used in therapy: pattern disruption, cord cutting letters, journaling, breathwork, grounding through the five senses, identifying whether anxiety comes from past wounds or future fears, gradual exposure to anxiety triggers, and reducing phone use. These are legitimate tools that can help people manage anxiety.
The problem is how these tools are presented. Everything is framed through pseudoscience about "energy drain" and "energetic imbalance" rather than the actual psychological and neurological basis for why these techniques work. More concerning, April encourages readers to identify and work through trauma on their own right at the start of the book. This can be genuinely dangerous depending on the severity of someone's trauma. She also positions medication as "suppressing" anxiety rather than treating it, framing her method as "the next step to move away from medication" and "the better option." This stigmatizes people who need psychiatric care and could discourage readers from getting necessary treatment.
April makes universal claims that her approach works for everyone without acknowledging when professional help is actually needed. The section on childhood anxiety particularly bothered me. She dismisses the reality of childhood trauma by saying most children haven't experienced "many traumas," which ignores adverse childhood experiences, bullying, academic pressure, intergenerational trauma, medical trauma, and neurodevelopmental differences. Trauma can happen even in loving homes.
What worries me most is what happens to readers who commit to this 21-day process and don't get the desired outcome. At the end of the guide, April tells readers that "true freedom from anxiety isn't a quick fix" and is "a commitment to showing up for yourself every single day." There's no acknowledgment that some people have clinical anxiety disorders requiring medical treatment. There's no guidance about when to seek professional help. This creates a framework where if the method doesn't work, readers blame themselves for not being committed enough rather than recognizing they might need actual psychiatric care. For someone with a serious anxiety disorder or trauma, this could keep them trapped in an ineffective approach while their condition worsens.
I want to be clear: I don't think everything in this book is bad. There are useful, legitimate techniques here. But this book should not be used as a standalone approach to treating anxiety. If someone is already seeing a therapist or counselor and wanted to use this as a supplemental framework for working through some of their anxiety, it might be helpful. But this book alone, without professional support, could spell disaster for many people.
Elizabeth April narrates her own audiobook. Her tone is fine and the audio quality is good. I found the pacing a bit slow for my taste so I sped it up, but that's just personal preference.
This book might work for people already in therapy looking for supplemental spiritual perspectives to discuss with their therapist. It is absolutely not appropriate for people with clinical anxiety disorders seeking primary treatment, trauma survivors who aren't already working with professionals, children or teens, or anyone not currently under the care of a mental health professional. If you're dealing with serious anxiety, please seek help from a licensed therapist or psychiatrist rather than relying solely on this book.
Some useful techniques presented irresponsibly by someone without the credentials to guide people through serious mental health work.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety offers reasoning for heightened anxieties (absorbing energy from people and things around us) and ways to help combat the anxiety, including a very thorough 21-day guide. I found some of the ideas to be quite useful, such as asking yourself what is wrong when you are feeling anxiety. Some things I do think maybe should not be practiced if you have OCD, or at least require a conversation with a therapist first. Some of the ideas, though, did completely lose me. When the author began discussing connecting to deceased relatives and a car accident actually being a good thing because you can get a new car from insurance, or your child's severe accident is just a part of their "soul contract." This book is definitely aimed to an audience that is maybe a bit more spiritual than I am.
The author mentions they are not a doctor or therapist at the beginning, but I think it needs to be repeated. Some of these suggestions, especially those including visualizing traumatic memories, should not be done without discussion with a properly licensed mental health professional.
The author mentions they are not a doctor or therapist at the beginning, but I think it needs to be repeated. Some of these suggestions, especially those including visualizing traumatic memories, should not be done without discussion with a properly licensed mental health professional.
January 21, 2026
Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the world.
Chances are, you have it and know many other people who do too.
That’s probably why there are a bazillion tips, tricks, and short cuts for dealing with anxiety.
And Elizabeth April, author of Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety, says all that is stressing us out!
So, here’s the thing about April’s book. She starts it by telling us all the ways she isn’t qualified to speak about anxiety.
But there are tons of people out there who are speaking about things that they don’t necessarily have the credentials for. I mean, look at Mel Robbins!
April has done the research. She also works through her own anxiety and helps others.
For me, don’t write a book about something you don’t feel like an expert in. And if you have the expertise, don’t undermine it from the jump.
The book itself was about recognizing anxiety, reframing it, and coping with it… all useful skills.
I gave it three stars.
Chances are, you have it and know many other people who do too.
That’s probably why there are a bazillion tips, tricks, and short cuts for dealing with anxiety.
And Elizabeth April, author of Your Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety, says all that is stressing us out!
So, here’s the thing about April’s book. She starts it by telling us all the ways she isn’t qualified to speak about anxiety.
But there are tons of people out there who are speaking about things that they don’t necessarily have the credentials for. I mean, look at Mel Robbins!
April has done the research. She also works through her own anxiety and helps others.
For me, don’t write a book about something you don’t feel like an expert in. And if you have the expertise, don’t undermine it from the jump.
The book itself was about recognizing anxiety, reframing it, and coping with it… all useful skills.
I gave it three stars.
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January 17, 2026thanks to the publisher and netgalley for an arc of this book. as a person who suffers with bad anxiety I found this book insightful. I took some notes on certain topics. it really made me think about the way I look at things and process things. especially about the past and future. would recommend to people who suffer with anxiety but proceed with caution. its not an easy read as it makes you look at your triggers, trauma's etc.
January 18, 2026
I was given a free copy of this audiobook from NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.
I appreciate this author attempting to provide something new in the way of managing anxiety. The audience for this book is quite slim, due to the basis of this framework being on energy work. I wouldn’t be able to refer this book to many clients.
I appreciate this author attempting to provide something new in the way of managing anxiety. The audience for this book is quite slim, due to the basis of this framework being on energy work. I wouldn’t be able to refer this book to many clients.
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